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Jim Thome's Three-Home-Run Game, 2001

DateJul 6, 2001
ScoreCardinals 2, Indians 14
TypeMulti homer

Jim Thome hit three home runs in one game for the Cleveland Indians against the St. Louis Cardinals on July 6, 2001. The Cleveland Indians won 14–2.

The game was played at Progressive Field in Cleveland. The announced attendance was 42,394. The game took 2h 54m. It was a night game under sunny skies, at 73 degrees.

Jim Thome did it twice in all. Matt Morris started for the St. Louis Cardinals. Hunter Wendelstedt umpired behind the plate. It is the twelfth of 21 three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CLE200107060
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CLE200107060
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