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Tony Horton's Three-Home-Run Game, 1970

DateMay 24, 1970
ScoreYankees 8, Indians 7
TypeMulti homer

Tony Horton hit three home runs in one game for the Cleveland Indians against the New York Yankees on May 24, 1970. The Cleveland Indians lost 8–7.

The game was played at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland. It went eleven innings. The announced attendance was 19,421. The game took 2h 59m. It was a day game under cloudy skies, at 76 degrees.

It was the only time Tony Horton managed it. John Cumberland started for the New York Yankees. Red Flaherty umpired behind the plate. It is the second of eight three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, CLE197005242
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:CLE197005242
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