Alex Bregman turned Monday night into a personal home run derby, and the Chicago Cubs turned it into franchise history. The third baseman blasted three home runs as the Cubs pounded out a franchise-record nine home runs in a 17-3 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers, according to the Associated Press.

Bregman went deep in the second inning, then connected again in the fourth alongside Seiya Suzuki for back-to-back homers, part of a barrage that saw the Cubs launch five home runs off Brewers starter Kyle Harrison in the first four innings alone before piling on three more late against a position player pressed into mound duty. It marked Bregman's second three-homer game in three weeks and pushed his season total to 23. Clay Holmes, meanwhile, was nearly forgotten amid the offensive fireworks — he tossed six scoreless innings to anchor the win.

The nine-homer output tied for the second-most in a single game by one team in MLB history, according to Sportradar data cited by the AP, trailing only Toronto's 10-homer explosion against Baltimore back in 1987. It also capped a historic month: per MLB.com, the Cubs' 62 home runs in August set a new National League record for homers in a calendar month.

The power surge comes at a critical stretch of the season as Chicago jockeys for playoff positioning, and it's fueling buzz that this Cubs lineup — anchored by Bregman's production since signing with the club — could be one of the most dangerous in the league heading into October. For a franchise with more than a century of history, breaking a single-game home run record on a random Monday night in Milwaukee is the kind of moment that gets replayed on highlight reels for years.