Hank Sauer's Three-Home-Run Game, 1952
Hank Sauer hit three home runs in one game for the Chicago Cubs against the Philadelphia Phillies on June 11, 1952. The Chicago Cubs won 3–2.
The game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The announced attendance was 10,765. The game took 2h 33m. It was a day game.
Hank Sauer did it twice in all. Curt Simmons started for the Philadelphia Phillies. Augie Donatelli umpired behind the plate. It is the second of three three-home-run games the archive records that season.
Key figures
Three-Home-Run Game
Sources
- Retrosheet, CHN195206110
- Retrosheet event files — event:CHN195206110
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