Roberto Clemente's Three-Home-Run Game, 1969
Roberto Clemente hit three home runs in one game for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the San Francisco Giants on August 13, 1969. The Pittsburgh Pirates won 10–5.
The game was played at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. The announced attendance was 5,966. The game took 2h 40m. It was a day game.
Roberto Clemente did it twice in all. Mike McCormick started for the San Francisco Giants. Satch Davidson umpired behind the plate. It is the last of six three-home-run games the archive records that season.
Key figures
Three-Home-Run Game
Sources
- Retrosheet, SFN196908130
- Retrosheet event files — event:SFN196908130
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