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Bobby Higginson's Three-Home-Run Game, 1997

DateJun 30, 1997
ScoreMets 0, Tigers 14
TypeMulti homer

Bobby Higginson hit three home runs in one game for the Detroit Tigers against the New York Mets on June 30, 1997. The Detroit Tigers won 14–0.

The game was played at Tiger Stadium in Detroit. The announced attendance was 15,009. The game took 2h 37m. It was a night game, at 77 degrees.

Bobby Higginson did it twice in all. Mark Clark started for the New York Mets. Larry McCoy 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, DET199706300
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:DET199706300
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