Cecil Cooper's Three-Home-Run Game, 1979
Cecil Cooper hit three home runs in one game for the Milwaukee Brewers against the New York Yankees on July 27, 1979. The Milwaukee Brewers won 6–5.
The game was played at County Stadium in Milwaukee. The announced attendance was 47,928. The game took 2h 42m. It was a night game, at 86 degrees.
It was the only time Cecil Cooper managed it. Ed Figueroa started for the New York Yankees. Richard Shulock umpired behind the plate. It is the eighth of eleven three-home-run games the archive records that season.
Key figures
Three-Home-Run Game
Sources
- Retrosheet, MIL197907270
- Retrosheet event files — event:MIL197907270
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