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Duke Snider's Three-Home-Run Game, 1955

DateJun 1, 1955
ScoreBraves 8, Dodgers 11
TypeMulti homer

Duke Snider hit three home runs in one game for the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Milwaukee Braves on June 1, 1955. The Brooklyn Dodgers won 11–8.

The game was played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. The announced attendance was 18,380. The game took 2h 46m. It was a night game.

Duke Snider did it twice in all. Gene Conley started for the Milwaukee Braves. Dusty Boggess umpired behind the plate. It is the fourth of seven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, BRO195506010
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:BRO195506010
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