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Al Oliver's Three-Home-Run Game, 1979

DateMay 23, 1979
ScoreTwins 2, Rangers 7
TypeMulti homer

Al Oliver hit three home runs in one game for the Texas Rangers against the Minnesota Twins on May 23, 1979. The Texas Rangers won 7–2.

The game was played at Arlington Stadium in Arlington. The announced attendance was 17,909. The game took 2h 01m. It was a night game, at 79 degrees.

Al Oliver did it twice in all. Dave Goltz started for the Minnesota Twins. Bill Haller umpired behind the plate. It is the third of eleven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, TEX197905230
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:TEX197905230
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