Dave Kingman's Three-Home-Run Game, 1979

Dave Kingman hit three home runs in one game for the Chicago Cubs against the Philadelphia Phillies on May 17, 1979. The Chicago Cubs lost 23–22.

The game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. It went ten innings. The announced attendance was 14,952. The game took 4h 03m. It was a day game under sunny skies, at 68 degrees.

Dave Kingman did it five times in all. Randy Lerch started for the Philadelphia Phillies. Dick Cavenaugh umpired behind the plate. It is the first of eleven three-home-run games the archive records that season.