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Jim Rice's Three-Home-Run Game, 1977

DateAug 29, 1977
ScoreAthletics 8, Red Sox 7
TypeMulti homer

Jim Rice hit three home runs in one game for the Boston Red Sox against the Oakland Athletics on August 29, 1977. The Boston Red Sox lost 8–7.

The game was played at Fenway Park in Boston. The announced attendance was 29,750. The game took 3h 24m. It was a night game, at 83 degrees.

Jim Rice did it twice in all. Joe Coleman started for the Oakland Athletics. Bill Kunkel umpired behind the plate. It is the last of seven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, BOS197708290
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:BOS197708290
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