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Dave Kingman's Three-Home-Run Game, 1976

DateJun 4, 1976
ScoreMets 11, Dodgers 0
TypeMulti homer

Dave Kingman hit three home runs in one game for the New York Mets against the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 4, 1976. The New York Mets won 11–0.

The game was played at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The announced attendance was 52,516. The game took 2h 18m. It was a night game.

Dave Kingman did it five times in all. Burt Hooton started for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Jerry Crawford umpired behind the plate. It is the third of five three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, LAN197606040
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:LAN197606040
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