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Mike Schmidt's Four-Home-Run Game, 1976

DateApr 17, 1976
ScorePhillies 18, Cubs 16
TypeMulti homer

Mike Schmidt hit four home runs in one game for the Philadelphia Phillies against the Chicago Cubs on April 17, 1976. The Philadelphia Phillies won 18–16.

The game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. It went ten innings. The announced attendance was 28,287. The game took 3h 41m. It was a day game.

Mike Schmidt did it three times in all. Rick Reuschel started for the Chicago Cubs. Ed Vargo umpired behind the plate. It is the eighth of 19 four-home-run games the archive records between 1932 and 2025.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CHN197604170
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CHN197604170
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