Duke Snider, Don Sutton, Fernando Valenzuela, Home Run Record and Jaime Jarrín

September 22nd is a notable date in the franchise history of the Los Angeles Dodgers for several reasons, and also for the 1957 Brooklyn team because of Duke Snider.

On the final day of the regular season that year, Snider hit two home runs in a 7-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies, marking the fifth consecutive season in which Snider has hit at least 40 home runs, tying Ralph Kiner's National League record.

This was Snider's last successful season, as he never hit more than 23 home runs for the rest of his career, which ended in 1964 with the San Francisco Giants.

Snider began playing for Brooklyn in 1947 and played for the Dodgers for 16 seasons, earning seven consecutive All-Star Game selections and finishing in the top 10 in NL MVP voting in five of those seasons.

Sutton reaches 20 wins

On September 22, 1976, Don Sutton pitched a complete game against the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park, earning his 20th win of the season. He won one more game that year, but it was the Hall of Famer's first and only 20-win season.

Sutton died in January 2021 and was one of the honorees at this year's Hall of Fame ceremony.

Valenzuela makes history as a Mexican pitcher

Ten years after Sutton reached 20 wins, Fernando Valenzuela accomplished the same feat by limiting the Houston Astros to just two hits in the Dodgers' 9-2 victory at the Astrodome. Valenzuela became the first Mexican pitcher to win 20 games in a single season.

Dodgers franchise home run record

After setting a franchise record with 221 home runs during the 2017 season, the Dodgers broke that mark on September 22, 2018, when Yasmani Grandal hit the team's 222nd home run in the sixth inning of a 7-2 win over the San Diego Padres.

The Dodgers finished this season with 235 home runs and surpassed that in 2019 with 279 to set a new franchise record and NL record.

Jarrín immortalized at Dodger Stadium

On September 22, 2019, the Dodgers held a pregame ceremony to induct Spanish-language broadcaster Jaime Jarrín into the Dodger Stadium Ring of Honor.

Speakers during the celebration included Pepe Yñiguez, Fernando Valenzuela and Hall of Fame commentator Vin Scully.

Jarrí was the twelfth person to be inducted into the Ring of Honor, along with Scully, Pee Wee Reese, Tommy Lasorda, Snider, Jim Gilliam, Sutton, Walter Alston, Sandy Koufax, Roy Campanella, Jackie Robinson and Don Drysdale.

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