Los Angeles Dodgers

Flashback: Barry Bonds sets single-season home run record

Published Oct. 5, 2015 6:00 a.m. ET

Chris Bahr

There aren't many home run records San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds doesn't own.

On Oct. 5, 2001, Bonds broke the single-season home run record -- which Mark McGwire had set three years earlier -- by blasting Nos. 71 and 72 against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The record-breaking blast came against Chan Ho Park in the bottom of the first, and Bonds took Park deep again two innings later.

In the final game of the regular season two days later, Bonds put the record even further out of reach by hitting his 73rd homer.

Bonds would play six more seasons, never hitting 50 homers in a single season again. He broke the all-time home run record with No. 756 during the 2007 season, which was his last. He finished his career with 762 homers.

Because of PED suspicions, Bonds has yet to come close to the 75 percent of the vote necessary for Hall of Fame induction. The seven-time MVP and 14-time All-Star peaked with 36.8 percent in 2015, his third year on the ballot.