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Sammy Sosa's Three-Home-Run Game, 1998

DateJun 15, 1998
ScoreBrewers 5, Cubs 6
TypeMulti homer

Sammy Sosa hit three home runs in one game for the Chicago Cubs against the Milwaukee Brewers on June 15, 1998. The Chicago Cubs won 6–5.

The game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The announced attendance was 37,903. The game took 2h 38m. It was a night game, at 69 degrees.

Sammy Sosa did it six times in all. Cal Eldred started for the Milwaukee Brewers. Wally Bell umpired behind the plate. It is the fifth of eleven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CHN199806150
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CHN199806150
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