Video: 'Barry Bonds 71st homerun 2001 ESPN Telecast'

(Friday, October 5, 2001, 8:14 p.m. PDT) — San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds, 37, became baseball’s record single-season home run hitter tonight when he struck his 71st and 72nd homers of the season at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco.

Video: 'Los Angeles Dodgers at San Francisco Giants, October 5, 2001 (Barry Bonds' 71st and 72nd HRs)'

Bonds surpassed Mark McGwire’s record of 70 home runs in one season set in 1998 when he hit Los Angeles Dodgers’ Chan Ho Park to right-center field in the first inning. Both players have been suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs.

Bonds would finish the season with 73 homers, a record and still stands today.