Sports History Archive Sourced daily

Sammy Sosa's Three-Home-Run Game, 1996

DateJun 5, 1996
ScorePhillies 6, Cubs 9
TypeMulti homer

Sammy Sosa hit three home runs in one game for the Chicago Cubs against the Philadelphia Phillies on June 5, 1996. The Chicago Cubs won 9–6.

The game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The announced attendance was 18,189. The game took 2h 17m. It was a day game under sunny skies, at 69 degrees.

Sammy Sosa did it six times in all. Terry Mulholland started for the Philadelphia Phillies. Bruce Froemming umpired behind the plate. It is the seventh of fifteen three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CHN199606050
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CHN199606050
Illustration generated by AI Retrosheet notice applies CC BY-SA attribution