Lou Gehrig's Three-Home-Run Game, 1929
Lou Gehrig hit three home runs in one game for the New York Yankees against the Chicago White Sox on May 4, 1929. The New York Yankees won 11–9.
The game was played at Comiskey Park I in Chicago. The announced attendance was 25,000. The game took 2h 29m. It was a day game.
Lou Gehrig did it four times in all. Red Faber started for the Chicago White Sox. Bill Guthrie umpired behind the plate. It is the only three-home-run game the archive records anywhere in the majors that season.
Key figures
Three-Home-Run Game
Sources
- Retrosheet, CHA192905040
- Retrosheet event files — event:CHA192905040
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