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Darnell Coles's Three-Home-Run Game, 1987

DateSep 30, 1987
ScoreCubs 10, Pirates 8
TypeMulti homer

Darnell Coles hit three home runs in one game for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Chicago Cubs on September 30, 1987. The Pittsburgh Pirates lost 10–8.

The game was played at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. The announced attendance was 6,985. The game took 3h 32m. It was a night game.

Darnell Coles did it twice in all. Jamie Moyer started for the Chicago Cubs. Randy Marsh umpired behind the plate. It is the fourteenth of fifteen three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, PIT198709302
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:PIT198709302
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