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Sammy Sosa's Three-Home-Run Game, 2001

DateAug 9, 2001
ScoreRockies 14, Cubs 5
TypeMulti homer

Sammy Sosa hit three home runs in one game for the Chicago Cubs against the Colorado Rockies on August 9, 2001. The Chicago Cubs lost 14–5.

The game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The announced attendance was 38,345. The game took 3h 13m. It was a day game under sunny skies, at 92 degrees.

Sammy Sosa did it six times in all. Mike Hampton started for the Colorado Rockies. Hunter Wendelstedt umpired behind the plate. It is the fourteenth of 21 three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CHN200108090
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CHN200108090
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