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Boog Powell's Three-Home-Run Game, 1963

DateAug 10, 1963
ScoreOrioles 5, Senators 6
TypeMulti homer

Boog Powell hit three home runs in one game for the Baltimore Orioles against the Washington Senators on August 10, 1963. The Baltimore Orioles lost 6–5.

The game was played at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington. The announced attendance was 6,408. The game took 2h 46m. It was a night game.

Boog Powell did it three times in all. Bennie Daniels started for the Washington Senators. Jim Honochick umpired behind the plate. It is the fifth of seven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, WS2196308100
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:WS2196308100
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