Vinny Castilla's Three-Home-Run Game, 1999
Vinny Castilla hit three home runs in one game for the Colorado Rockies against the Milwaukee Brewers on June 5, 1999. The Colorado Rockies won 12–11.
The game was played at Coors Field in Denver. The announced attendance was 43,409. The game took 3h 40m. It was a night game under cloudy skies, at 58 degrees.
Vinny Castilla did it twice in all. Hideo Nomo started for the Milwaukee Brewers. Mike Winters umpired behind the plate. It is the sixth of 16 three-home-run games the archive records that season.
Key figures
Three-Home-Run Game
Sources
- Retrosheet, COL199906050
- Retrosheet event files — event:COL199906050
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