SAN FRANCISCO – The Dodgers are keeping it 100.

For the third time in the past three full seasons and the fourth time in the past six, the Dodgers reached triple digits in wins, pounding their way to the milestone with a 7-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants Saturday night.

“It just speaks to the level of consistency. Every team goes through adversities. But to have a consistent level of play to win 100 games to this point is quite the accomplishment,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

“To win 100 games, you’ve got to do a lot of things right over the course of a long season. That’s kind of the bar, the standard we have. That’s what I’m most proud of. Where you get to is winning 100 games.”

The Dodgers outhit the Giants, 13-5, to secure the 10th 100-win season in franchise history.

It was an appropriate way to reach the century mark.

The Dodgers have gone 45-16 against NL West opponents including 14-4 against the Giants this season. And they have dominated all of their opponents.

Their run differential of plus-328 is the best in franchise history and the best in MLB since the 1939 Yankees bludgeoned opponents for a record plus-411 mark. Saturday was the 57th of their 100 wins to come by a margin of four runs or more.

Those kinds of things happen when you have scored the most runs in baseball (781) and given up the fewest (453). Only one team since World War II – the 116-win Mariners of 2001 – have done that over a full season. The last National League team to do it was the 1944 Cardinals.

“Pitching,” Freddie Freeman said of the most important element. “I think we lead the league in ERA. When you do that you’re going to set yourself up for a lot of chances for wins. Obviously we’ve got a pretty good offense too. So put those two together and that’s how you’re going to come up with 100 wins in few games.”

Saturday was just another model off this year’s assembly line.

Starter Julio Urias went six innings, allowing just two runs on five hits while striking out eight. It was the 11th consecutive start and 22nd time in 28 starts in which Urias has allowed no more than two runs.

Only one of those runs was earned, dropping Urias’ ERA to an NL-low 2.27

“Same old Julio,” Freeman said. “If he’s not right there in the Cy Young contention, I don’t know what that award would mean then because he has been doing it all year.”

Marlins right-hander Sandy Alcantara spent most of the season as the National League Cy Young frontrunner. But Urias has passed him in ERA, WHIP and batting average against with Diamondbacks right-hander Zac Gallen also surging. With three or four starts left, Urias (17-7 with 14 wins in his past 16 starts) has a chance at a second consecutive 20-win season.

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“Not really,” Urias said in Spanish when asked if he has given any thought to winning a Cy Young award this year. “Obviously there will be opinions and people will say a lot of things. But I try to stay focused on what I have to do each start.

“Those numbers will speak for themselves and we’ll see.”

After sloppy defense led to that unearned run against Urias in the first, the Dodgers scored six runs in the next two innings, getting a two-run home run from Trayce Thompson in the second inning and then scoring four times in the third inning.

Thompson’s home run was his 11th since being acquired by the Dodgers from the Detroit Tigers for cash considerations in late June.

The four-run burst in the third inning started with five consecutive singles. Freeman, Max Muncy and Justin Turner drove in runs with their hits.

Turner made it a three-hit night with another RBI single in the fourth. He is batting .360 (41 for 114) with runners in scoring position this year.