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

DateAug 22, 2001
ScoreBrewers 3, Cubs 16
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

  1. Retrosheet, CHN200108220
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CHN200108220
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