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Boog Powell's Three-Home-Run Game, 1966

DateAug 15, 1966
ScoreOrioles 4, Red Sox 2
TypeMulti homer

Boog Powell hit three home runs in one game for the Baltimore Orioles against the Boston Red Sox on August 15, 1966. The Baltimore Orioles won 4–2.

The game was played at Fenway Park in Boston. It went eleven innings. The announced attendance was 10,018. The game took 3h 10m. It was a night game.

Boog Powell did it three times in all. Jim Lonborg started for the Boston Red Sox. Bob Stewart umpired behind the plate. It is the third of four three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, BOS196608150
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:BOS196608150
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