Ben Oglivie's Three-Home-Run Game, 1979
DateJul 8, 1979
TeamsDetroit Tigers @ Milwaukee Brewers
ScoreTigers 4, Brewers 5
Venue County Stadium
TypeMulti homer
Ben Oglivie hit three home runs in one game for the Milwaukee Brewers against the Detroit Tigers on July 8, 1979. The Milwaukee Brewers won 5–4.
The game was played at County Stadium in Milwaukee. The game took 2h 44m. It was a day game, at 73 degrees.
Ben Oglivie did it three times in all. Jack Billingham started for the Detroit Tigers. Bill Deegan umpired behind the plate. It is the fifth of eleven three-home-run games the archive records that season.
Key figures
Three-Home-Run Game
Sources
- Retrosheet, MIL197907081
- Retrosheet event files — event:MIL197907081
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