Sammy Sosa's Three-Home-Run Game, 2001
DateAug 22, 2001
TeamsMilwaukee Brewers @ Chicago Cubs
ScoreBrewers 3, Cubs 16
Venue Wrigley Field
TypeMulti homer
Sammy Sosa hit three home runs in one game for the Chicago Cubs against the Milwaukee Brewers on August 22, 2001. The Chicago Cubs won 16–3.
The game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The announced attendance was 33,904. The game took 2h 54m. It was a day game under sunny skies, at 81 degrees.
Sammy Sosa did it six times in all. Mac Suzuki started for the Milwaukee Brewers. Paul Schrieber umpired behind the plate. It is the seventeenth of 21 three-home-run games the archive records that season.
Key figures
Three-Home-Run Game
Sources
- Retrosheet, CHN200108220
- Retrosheet event files — event:CHN200108220
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