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Willie McCovey's Three-Home-Run Game, 1966

DateSep 17, 1966
ScoreMets 4, Giants 6
TypeMulti homer

Willie McCovey hit three home runs in one game for the San Francisco Giants against the New York Mets on September 17, 1966. The San Francisco Giants won 6–4.

The game was played at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. It went ten innings. The announced attendance was 19,024. The game took 2h 45m. It was a day game.

Willie McCovey did it three times in all. Dennis Ribant started for the New York Mets. Harry Wendelstedt umpired behind the plate. It is the last of four three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, SFN196609170
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:SFN196609170
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