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Joe DiMaggio's Three-Home-Run Game, 1948

DateMay 23, 1948
ScoreYankees 6, Indians 5
TypeMulti homer

Joe DiMaggio hit three home runs in one game for the New York Yankees against the Cleveland Indians on May 23, 1948. The New York Yankees won 6–5.

The game was played at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland. The game took 2h 17m. It was a day game.

Joe DiMaggio did it three times in all. Bob Feller started for the Cleveland Indians. Bill McKinley umpired behind the plate. It is the first of three three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CLE194805231
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CLE194805231
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