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Trot Nixon's Three-Home-Run Game, 1999

DateJul 24, 1999
ScoreRed Sox 11, Tigers 4
TypeMulti homer

Trot Nixon hit three home runs in one game for the Boston Red Sox against the Detroit Tigers on July 24, 1999. The Boston Red Sox won 11–4.

The game was played at Tiger Stadium in Detroit. The announced attendance was 37,149. The game took 2h 37m. It was a night game under cloudy skies, at 89 degrees.

It was the only time Trot Nixon managed it. Jeff Weaver started for the Detroit Tigers. Richard Shulock umpired behind the plate. It is the ninth of 16 three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, DET199907240
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:DET199907240
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