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Alex Rodriguez's Three-Home-Run Game, 2002

DateAug 17, 2002
ScoreBlue Jays 5, Rangers 9
TypeMulti homer

Alex Rodriguez hit three home runs in one game for the Texas Rangers against the Toronto Blue Jays on August 17, 2002. The Texas Rangers won 9–5.

The game was played at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington in Arlington. The announced attendance was 30,426. The game took 3h 02m. It was a night game under cloudy skies, at 91 degrees.

Alex Rodriguez did it five times in all. Steve Parris started for the Toronto Blue Jays. Laz Diaz umpired behind the plate. It is the ninth of twelve three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, TEX200208170
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:TEX200208170
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