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Willie Stargell's Three-Home-Run Game, 1971

DateApr 21, 1971
ScoreBraves 2, Pirates 10
TypeMulti homer

Willie Stargell hit three home runs in one game for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Atlanta Braves on April 21, 1971. The Pittsburgh Pirates won 10–2.

The game was played at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. The announced attendance was 7,992. The game took 2h 06m. It was a night game under cloudy skies.

Willie Stargell did it four times in all. Jim Nash started for the Atlanta Braves. Mel Steiner umpired behind the plate. It is the second of four three-home-run games the archive records that season.

Key figures

Three-Home-Run Game

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, PIT197104210
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:PIT197104210
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