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Bret Boone's Three-Home-Run Game, 1998

DateSep 20, 1998
ScoreReds 7, Cubs 3
TypeMulti homer

Bret Boone hit three home runs in one game for the Cincinnati Reds against the Chicago Cubs on September 20, 1998. The Cincinnati Reds won 7–3.

The game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The announced attendance was 40,117. The game took 2h 45m. It was a day game under sunny skies, at 84 degrees.

Bret Boone did it twice in all. Kevin Tapani started for the Chicago Cubs. Dana DeMuth umpired behind the plate. It is the tenth of eleven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CHN199809200
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CHN199809200
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