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

DateJun 9, 1970
ScoreBrewers 3, Tigers 8
TypeMulti homer

Willie Horton hit three home runs in one game for the Detroit Tigers against the Milwaukee Brewers on June 9, 1970. The Detroit Tigers won 8–3.

The game was played at Tiger Stadium in Detroit. The announced attendance was 12,647. The game took 2h 26m. It was a night game.

Willie Horton did it twice in all. Ray Peters started for the Milwaukee Brewers. Jim Honochick umpired behind the plate. It is the fourth of eight three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, DET197006090
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:DET197006090
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