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Frank Thomas's Three-Home-Run Game, 1996

DateSep 15, 1996
ScoreWhite Sox 8, Red Sox 9
TypeMulti homer

Frank Thomas hit three home runs in one game for the Chicago White Sox against the Boston Red Sox on September 15, 1996. The Chicago White Sox lost 9–8.

The game was played at Fenway Park in Boston. The announced attendance was 32,452. The game took 2h 59m. It was a day game under sunny skies, at 74 degrees.

Frank Thomas did it twice in all. Tim Wakefield started for the Boston Red Sox. Joe Brinkman umpired behind the plate. It is the twelfth of fifteen three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, BOS199609150
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:BOS199609150
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