Don Demeter's Three-Home-Run Game, 1959
DateApr 21, 1959
ScoreGiants 7, Dodgers 9
TypeMulti homer
Don Demeter hit three home runs in one game for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the San Francisco Giants on April 21, 1959. The Los Angeles Dodgers won 9–7.
The game was played at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. It went eleven innings. The announced attendance was 30,423. The game took 3h 47m. It was a night game.
Don Demeter did it twice in all. Stu Miller started for the San Francisco Giants. Ed Sudol umpired behind the plate. It is the first of five three-home-run games the archive records that season.
Key figures
Three-Home-Run Game
Sources
- Retrosheet, LAN195904210
- Retrosheet event files — event:LAN195904210
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