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Lou Gehrig's Three-Home-Run Game, 1930

DateMay 22, 1930
ScoreYankees 20, Athletics 13
Venue Shibe Park
TypeMulti homer

Lou Gehrig hit three home runs in one game for the New York Yankees against the Philadelphia Athletics on May 22, 1930. The New York Yankees won 20–13.

The game was played at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. The announced attendance was 24,000. The game took 3h 00m. It was a day game.

Lou Gehrig did it four times in all. Bill Shores started for the Philadelphia Athletics. Dick Nallin umpired behind the plate. It is the second of seven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, PHA193005222
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:PHA193005222
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