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Claudell Washington's Three-Home-Run Game, 1979

DateJul 14, 1979
ScoreTigers 4, White Sox 12
TypeMulti homer

Claudell Washington hit three home runs in one game for the Chicago White Sox against the Detroit Tigers on July 14, 1979. The Chicago White Sox won 12–4.

The game was played at Comiskey Park I in Chicago. The announced attendance was 23,887. The game took 2h 54m. It was a night game, at 73 degrees.

Claudell Washington did it twice in all. Steve Baker started for the Detroit Tigers. Dallas Parks umpired behind the plate. It is the sixth of eleven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CHA197907140
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CHA197907140
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