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Joe Carter's Three-Home-Run Game, 1987

DateMay 28, 1987
ScoreIndians 8, Red Sox 12
TypeMulti homer

Joe Carter hit three home runs in one game for the Cleveland Indians against the Boston Red Sox on May 28, 1987. The Cleveland Indians lost 12–8.

The game was played at Fenway Park in Boston. The announced attendance was 22,305. The game took 3h 48m. It was a night game.

Joe Carter did it five times in all. John Leister started for the Boston Red Sox. Vic Voltaggio umpired behind the plate. It is the fourth of fifteen three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, BOS198705280
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:BOS198705280
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