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Bobby Murcer's Three-Home-Run Game, 1970

DateJun 24, 1970
ScoreIndians 4, Yankees 5
TypeMulti homer

Bobby Murcer hit three home runs in one game for the New York Yankees against the Cleveland Indians on June 24, 1970. The New York Yankees won 5–4.

The game was played at Yankee Stadium I in New York. The announced attendance was 31,925. The game took 2h 34m. It was a day game, at 79 degrees.

Bobby Murcer did it twice in all. Mike Paul started for the Cleveland Indians. Ron Luciano umpired behind the plate. It is the fifth of eight three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, NYA197006242
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:NYA197006242
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