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Cecil Fielder's Three-Home-Run Game, 1990

DateMay 6, 1990
ScoreTigers 7, Blue Jays 11
TypeMulti homer

Cecil Fielder hit three home runs in one game for the Detroit Tigers against the Toronto Blue Jays on May 6, 1990. The Detroit Tigers lost 11–7.

The game was played at Rogers Centre in Toronto. The announced attendance was 49,206. The game took 2h 53m. It was a day game indoors, at 70 degrees.

Cecil Fielder did it three times in all. Jimmy Key started for the Toronto Blue Jays. Derryl Cousins umpired behind the plate. It is the first of eight three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, TOR199005060
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:TOR199005060
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