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Cliff Johnson's Three-Home-Run Game, 1977

DateJun 30, 1977
ScoreYankees 11, Blue Jays 5
TypeMulti homer

Cliff Johnson hit three home runs in one game for the New York Yankees against the Toronto Blue Jays on June 30, 1977. The New York Yankees won 11–5.

The game was played at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. The announced attendance was 33,283. The game took 2h 28m. It was a night game under cloudy skies, at 70 degrees.

It was the only time Cliff Johnson managed it. Jerry Garvin started for the Toronto Blue Jays. Russ Goetz umpired behind the plate. It is the fifth of seven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, TOR197706300
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:TOR197706300
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