LOS ANGELES -- Dating back to their Brooklyn days, the Dodgers organization has had 25 three-homer performances in a game. They’ve also had two players tie the Major League record of four homers in a single game.

There’s a surplus of great single-game hitting performances. But we’re going to do our best to rank just the top five single-game performances in Dodgers history. There will surely be some disagreements, but that’s only because of the large number of moments to pick from.

1) Shawn Green, May 23, 2002, vs. Brewers

Not only does Shawn Green easily have the best single-game hitting performance in franchise history, but he has a very good argument to make that it was the best hitting performance by any player in history.

Green went 6-for-6 with six runs scored, seven RBIs and a record 19 total bases in a 16-3 win over the Brewers. It was the most impressive game of the best stretch in Green’s career. He hit 17 home runs in a 23-game span. Greene finished the season with 42 long balls and made his second All-Star appearance.

“That day, and that week, I had a very calm sense of being in the zone,” Green said. “As opposed to other times, when you’re in the zone and you almost start pressing. because you don’t want to waste that great feeling you have. When that happens, in some ways you feel more pressure when you’re in that zone. But for that week, I was just very relaxed. Everything slowed down. All the clichés.”

2) Gil Hodges, Aug. 31, 1950, vs. Braves

While Green’s performance stands in its own class, Gil Hodges’ monster game in a 19-3 drubbing against the Boston Braves is nothing to look past. 

Hodges went 5-for-6 and became the first Dodgers hitter to record a four-homer game. He totaled 17 total bases, which was the team record before Green topped it 52 years later. Hodges drove in nine runs, which is tied with James Loney for most in a single game in franchise history.

3) Davey Lopes, Aug. 20, 1974, vs. Cubs

Davey Lopes hit 20-plus homers in a season just once in his career, but he showed off his power by going deep three times in the Dodgers’ 18-8 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. 

Lopes went 5-for-6 and finished with 15 total bases, the third-most in franchise history. He’s also the only Dodgers starting second baseman to hit three home runs in a game. That’s the tidbit that separates him from some of the other three-homer games in Dodgers history.

4) Yasmani Grandal, July 8, 2016, vs. Padres

Yasmani Grandal couldn’t be stopped at the plate in the Dodgers’ 10-6 win over the Padres, delivering one of the best single-game performances by a backstop in history. Grandal went 5-for-5 with three homers in the win. He almost hit for the home run cycle, launching a three-run homer, a two-run shot and a solo dinger. 

The 14 total bases by Grandal are still the most by a Dodgers catcher in a game.

5) Mookie Betts, Aug. 13, 2020, vs. Padres

There have been many three-homer games in Dodgers history, but Mookie Betts’ performance in an 11-2 rout against the Padres helped him join an exclusive club in Major League history. 

With Betts going deep three times against San Diego, the Dodgers outfielder joined Sammy Sosa and Johnny Mize as the only players in MLB history to record six three-homer games in their career. That’s an impressive feat for a star who is considered more of a complete player than a slugger. 

Betts went 4-for-4 with four runs scored and five RBIs in the win. He legged out an infield single in his last at-bat, showing off another part of his game.