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Roberto Clemente's Three-Home-Run Game, 1967

DateMay 15, 1967
ScorePirates 7, Reds 8
TypeMulti homer

Roberto Clemente hit three home runs in one game for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Cincinnati Reds on May 15, 1967. The Pittsburgh Pirates lost 8–7.

The game was played at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. It went ten innings. The announced attendance was 5,222. The game took 3h 18m. It was a night game.

Roberto Clemente did it twice in all. Milt Pappas started for the Cincinnati Reds. Bill Jackowski umpired behind the plate. It is the first of five three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CIN196705150
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CIN196705150
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