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Mark McGwire's Three-Home-Run Game, 1987

DateJun 27, 1987
ScoreAthletics 13, Indians 3
TypeMulti homer

Mark McGwire hit three home runs in one game for the Oakland Athletics against the Cleveland Indians on June 27, 1987. The Oakland Athletics won 13–3.

The game was played at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland. The announced attendance was 13,086. The game took 2h 43m. It was a day game.

Mark McGwire did it five times in all. Ken Schrom started for the Cleveland Indians. Rocky Roe umpired behind the plate. It is the sixth of fifteen three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CLE198706270
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CLE198706270
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