Despite Friday night’s depressing 8-6 loss to the ice cold Pittsburgh Pirates, who have lost eight of their last 10 games, the Dodgers homered in their 14th consecutive game to tie the Washington Nationals for the longest streak this season in the majors. It was a monster 439-foot solo shot by Dodgers right fielder Yasiel Puig in the top of the sixth inning off of Pirates right-hander Jared Hughes that landed in the second deck at PNC Park.

After Puig’s solo shot, I began to wonder what the MLB record was for most consecutive games with a home run and did what any red-blooded die-hard baseball fan would do, I Googled it.

Much to my surprise – shock, actually – it wasn’t on Baseball_Reference.com, the absolute number one Go-To website for all things baseball. I also couldn’t find it on Baseball-Almanac.com, the number two site. Of all places, I finally found it on Answers.com and the answer surprised me. It was 27 set by the Texas Rangers in 2002.

“Twenty-seven?” I thought to myself. “That sure seems like a lot.” And though I have never found Answers.com to be wrong in the past, it’s not a baseball site and I thought that perhaps this time they were. I mean, 27 consecutive games is nearly a full month.

Not wanting to be wrong about what I consider to be a rather significant MLB record and because the Dodgers were now in pursuit of it, I took the next logical step and went to Wikipedia to confirm (or disprove) what I had found on Answers.com.

Sure enough, under the 2002 Texas Rangers season Wikipedia page was clearly written: “The Rangers set the Major League record for most consecutive games with at least one home run, with 27” from August 11 to September 9, 2002.

Empowered with this new knowledge that (apparently) few people had, I next went straight to the Dodgers Records website to ascertain what the Dodgers record was for consecutive games with a home run. Expecting not to find it, you can imagine my surprise (and delight) when there it was in black and white (well, actually white on Dodger Blue) under the Club Batting category. From June 18 to July 10, 1953, the Brooklyn Dodgers hit a home run in 24 consecutive games … twenty-four!

As most veteran (old) Dodger fans recall, the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers were (and still are) considered the best team in Dodgers history. That year they won a franchise-record 105 games while losing only 49. Unfortunately, with a team comprised of Messrs. Jim Gilliam (2B), Pee Wee Reese (SS), Duke Snider (CF), Jackie Robinson (3B), Roy Campanella (C), Don Thompson (LF), Gil Hodges (1B), Carl Furillo (RF) and Carl Erskine (P) in its opening day lineup, the Dodgers fell to the New York Yankees in six games in the heartbreaking 1953 World Series; a series that most baseball experts had pegged them to win.

The Dodgers got their redemption two years later when they topped the Yankees in seven games to win the 1955 World Series, their first in franchise history and only World Championship in Brooklyn.

Although having hit home runs in 14 consecutive games in indeed a tremendous accomplishment, the 2016 Dodgers still need to hit a home run in each of their next 10 games to tie the record of that historic 1953 Dodgers team and 11 to surpass it. That being said, you’ve got to like their chances with Corey Seager, Joc Pederson, Trayce Thompson, Justin Turner, Adrian Gonzalez and Yasiel Puig swinging hot bats right now.

Go Dodgers!