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Rocky Colavito's Four-Home-Run Game, 1959

DateJun 10, 1959
ScoreIndians 11, Orioles 8
TypeMulti homer

Rocky Colavito hit four home runs in one game for the Cleveland Indians against the Baltimore Orioles on June 10, 1959. The Cleveland Indians won 11–8.

The game was played at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. The announced attendance was 15,883. The game took 2h 54m. It was a night game.

Rocky Colavito did it three times in all. Jerry Walker started for the Baltimore Orioles. Bill Summers umpired behind the plate. It is the sixth of 19 four-home-run games the archive records between 1932 and 2025.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, BAL195906100
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:BAL195906100
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