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Babe Ruth's Three-Home-Run Game, 1930

DateMay 21, 1930
ScoreYankees 7, Athletics 15
Venue Shibe Park
TypeMulti homer

Babe Ruth hit three home runs in one game for the New York Yankees against the Philadelphia Athletics on May 21, 1930. The New York Yankees lost 15–7.

The game was played at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. The game took 2h 41m. It was a day game.

Babe Ruth did it twice in all. George Earnshaw started for the Philadelphia Athletics. Dick Nallin umpired behind the plate. It is the first of seven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, PHA193005211
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:PHA193005211
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