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Eddie Murray's Three-Home-Run Game, 1979

DateAug 29, 1979
ScoreOrioles 7, Twins 4
TypeMulti homer

Eddie Murray hit three home runs in one game for the Baltimore Orioles against the Minnesota Twins on August 29, 1979. The Baltimore Orioles won 7–4.

The game was played at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington. The announced attendance was 11,470. The game took 2h 47m. It was a day game.

Eddie Murray did it three times in all. Geoff Zahn started for the Minnesota Twins. Marty Springstead umpired behind the plate. It is the tenth of eleven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, MIN197908292
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:MIN197908292
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