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Albert Pujols's Three-Home-Run Game, 2006

DateSep 3, 2006
ScorePirates 3, Cardinals 6
TypeMulti homer

Albert Pujols hit three home runs in one game for the St. Louis Cardinals against the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 3, 2006. The St. Louis Cardinals won 6–3.

The game was played at Busch Stadium III in St. Louis. The announced attendance was 42,205. The game took 2h 38m. It was a day game under cloudy skies, at 77 degrees.

Albert Pujols did it four times in all. Ian Snell started for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Phil Cuzzi umpired behind the plate. It is the tenth of eleven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, SLN200609030
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:SLN200609030
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