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B. J. Upton's Three-Home-Run Game, 2012

DateSep 9, 2012
ScoreRangers 0, Rays 6
TypeMulti homer

B. J. Upton hit three home runs in one game for the Tampa Bay Rays against the Texas Rangers on September 9, 2012. The Tampa Bay Rays won 6–0.

The game was played at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. The announced attendance was 20,522. The game took 2h 15m. It was a day game indoors, at 72 degrees.

It was the only time B. J. Upton managed it. Roy Oswalt started for the Texas Rangers. Larry Vanover umpired behind the plate. It is the ninth of eleven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, TBA201209090
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:TBA201209090
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