Willie Stargell's Three-Home-Run Game, 1971
Willie Stargell hit three home runs in one game for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Atlanta Braves on April 10, 1971. The Pittsburgh Pirates lost 5–4.
The game was played at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta. It went twelve innings. The announced attendance was 13,079. The game took 2h 41m. It was a night game.
Willie Stargell did it four times in all. Phil Niekro started for the Atlanta Braves. Andy Olsen umpired behind the plate. It is the first of four three-home-run games the archive records that season.
Key figures
Three-Home-Run Game
Sources
- Retrosheet, ATL197104100
- Retrosheet event files — event:ATL197104100
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