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With 47 home runs this season, Adrian Beltre is of course within range of the Dodger record for home runs - Shawn Green holds it at 49.
Beltre can also break the Los Angeles single-season record for slugging percentage, held by Gary Sheffield, who slugged .643 in 2000. Beltre is at .647.
Babe Herman (1930) holds the Brooklyn-Los Angeles Dodger slugging percentage record at .678. The race for the No. 2 slugging percentage in franchise history is close and then some:
.64726 Duke Snider, 1954
.64716 Adrian Beltre, 2004 (current)
Similarly, with 365 total bases, Beltre has already risen to fifth on the Dodger all-time list in that category. He could pass Shawn Green (370, 2001) for the Los Angeles record as soon as this weekend, and could rise as high as No. 2 in franchise history if he passes Duke Snider's 1954 total of 378. Herman had 416 in 1930 to top the history books.
The Dodger OPS records are just out of reach for Beltre, despite his having risen to 1.039. Sheffield set the Los Angeles record in 2000 at 1.081, while Herman clocked in at 1.132. Beltre is currently eighth in franchise history and third in Los Angeles history, behind Sheffield and Mike Piazza (1.070 in 1997).
At age 25, Beltre has already climbed into ninth place on the Los Angeles career home run list, with 146:
270 Eric Karros
228 Ron Cey
211 Steve Garvey
177 Mike Piazza
171 Pedro Guerrero
163 Raul Mondesi
161 Shawn Green
154 Willie Davis
146 Adrian Beltre
Beltre and Cesar Izturis could become the first Dodger teammates with 200 hits in 42 years, since Tommy Davis and Maury Wills in 1962. With 10 games to play, Beltre has 193 and Izturis has 185.
Alex Cora, we know, broke the Los Angeles record for hit-by-pitches this year with his 17th bruise. The overall franchise record is 20, set by Hughie Jennings in 19 ought ought. Teammates Jennings and Dan McGann also had 17 and 19, respectively, in 1899.
Oh, and Izturis, with 631 at bats, projects to finish the season at 673, which would be second in franchise history behind Maury Wills' 695 in 1962.
Sources: Los Angeles Dodgers media guide, Baseball-Reference.com
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