Sports History Archive Sourced daily

Don Demeter's Three-Home-Run Game, 1961

DateSep 12, 1961
ScorePhillies 19, Dodgers 10
TypeMulti homer

Don Demeter hit three home runs in one game for the Philadelphia Phillies against the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 12, 1961. The Philadelphia Phillies won 19–10.

The game was played at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. The announced attendance was 8,629. The game took 3h 15m. It was a night game.

Don Demeter did it twice in all. Sandy Koufax started for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Al Barlick umpired behind the plate. It is the last of six three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, LAN196109120
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:LAN196109120
Illustration generated by AI Retrosheet notice applies CC BY-SA attribution