One season after shattering the franchise record for most strikeouts in a single season, the 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers set a new record, with their pitchers combining for 1,549 strikeouts. In 2016, the team collected 1,510 punchouts.
Prior to that year, no Dodgers team had so much as reached 1,400 strikeouts in a season. Since the 2013 club set a new franchise record that had previously been set in 2003, the Dodgers have improved on the record in four consecutive seasons.
They were led this year by Clayton Kershaw’s 202 strikeouts that were 16th-most among all MLB pitchers.