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Bobby Murcer's Three-Home-Run Game, 1973

DateJul 13, 1973
ScoreRoyals 0, Yankees 5
TypeMulti homer

Bobby Murcer hit three home runs in one game for the New York Yankees against the Kansas City Royals on July 13, 1973. The New York Yankees won 5–0.

The game was played at Yankee Stadium I in New York. The announced attendance was 15,690. The game took 1h 51m. It was a night game, at 79 degrees.

Bobby Murcer did it twice in all. Gene Garber started for the Kansas City Royals. George Maloney umpired behind the plate. It is the last of six three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, NYA197307130
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:NYA197307130
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