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Joe Carter's Three-Home-Run Game, 1989

DateJul 19, 1989
ScoreIndians 10, Twins 1
TypeMulti homer

Joe Carter hit three home runs in one game for the Cleveland Indians against the Minnesota Twins on July 19, 1989. The Cleveland Indians won 10–1.

The game was played at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis. The announced attendance was 22,504. The game took 2h 17m. It was a night game indoors.

Joe Carter did it five times in all. Allan Anderson started for the Minnesota Twins. Mike Reilly 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

  1. Retrosheet, MIN198907190
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:MIN198907190
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