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Lou Gehrig's Three-Home-Run Game, 1927

DateJun 23, 1927
ScoreYankees 11, Red Sox 4
TypeMulti homer

Lou Gehrig hit three home runs in one game for the New York Yankees against the Boston Red Sox on June 23, 1927. The New York Yankees won 11–4.

The game was played at Fenway Park in Boston. The announced attendance was 2,000. The game took 1h 58m. It was a day game.

Lou Gehrig did it four times in all. Del Lundgren started for the Boston Red Sox. Dick Nallin 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, BOS192706230
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:BOS192706230
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