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Willie Horton's Three-Home-Run Game, 1977

DateMay 15, 1977
ScoreRangers 7, Royals 3
TypeMulti homer

Willie Horton hit three home runs in one game for the Texas Rangers against the Kansas City Royals on May 15, 1977. The Texas Rangers won 7–3.

The game was played at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. The announced attendance was 19,983. The game took 2h 27m. It was a day game.

Willie Horton did it twice in all. Paul Splittorff started for the Kansas City Royals. Jim McKean umpired behind the plate. It is the second of seven three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, KCA197705150
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:KCA197705150
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