Hank Sauer's Three-Home-Run Game, 1950
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
- Retrosheet, CHN195008281
- Retrosheet event files — event:CHN195008281
Illustration generated by AI Retrosheet notice applies CC BY-SA attribution