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Hank Sauer's Three-Home-Run Game, 1950

DateAug 28, 1950
ScorePhillies 5, Cubs 7
TypeMulti homer

Hank Sauer hit three home runs in one game for the Chicago Cubs against the Philadelphia Phillies on August 28, 1950. The Chicago Cubs won 7–5.

The game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The game took 2h 11m. It was a day game.

Hank Sauer did it twice in all. Curt Simmons started for the Philadelphia Phillies. Bill Stewart umpired behind the plate. It is the seventh of ten three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CHN195008281
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CHN195008281
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