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José Canseco's Three-Home-Run Game, 1988

DateJul 3, 1988
ScoreAthletics 9, Blue Jays 8
TypeMulti homer

José Canseco hit three home runs in one game for the Oakland Athletics against the Toronto Blue Jays on July 3, 1988. The Oakland Athletics won 9–8.

The game was played at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. It went 16 innings. The announced attendance was 32,329. The game took 5h 02m. It was a day game under sunny skies, at 77 degrees.

José Canseco did it twice in all. Todd Stottlemyre started for the Toronto Blue Jays. Mark Johnson umpired behind the plate. It is the last of two three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, TOR198807030
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:TOR198807030
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