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Willie Stargell's Three-Home-Run Game, 1965

DateJun 24, 1965
ScorePirates 13, Dodgers 3
TypeMulti homer

Willie Stargell hit three home runs in one game for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 24, 1965. The Pittsburgh Pirates won 13–3.

The game was played at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The announced attendance was 28,867. The game took 2h 33m. It was a night game.

Willie Stargell did it four times in all. Don Drysdale started for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Al Barlick umpired behind the plate. It is the third of four three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, LAN196506240
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:LAN196506240
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