Carney Lansford's Three-Home-Run Game, 1979
Carney Lansford hit three home runs in one game for the California Angels against the Cleveland Indians on September 1, 1979. The California Angels won 7–4.
The game was played at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland. The announced attendance was 22,804. The game took 2h 51m. It was a night game, at 83 degrees.
It was the only time Carney Lansford managed it. Dan Spillner started for the Cleveland Indians. George Maloney umpired behind the plate. It is the last of eleven three-home-run games the archive records that season.
Key figures
Three-Home-Run Game
Sources
- Retrosheet, CLE197909010
- Retrosheet event files — event:CLE197909010
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