3-homer games since 1992, split by stadium

I just did a manual workup of all 3-homer games since 1992, split out by team’s home stadium. Note that this doesn’t take into account stadium changes–for example the numbers for Washington include all 3-HR games by Expos or Nats hit at home, and all 3-HR games by visitors at the Expos’ or Nats’ home stadium.

Team   H    V   Total
CHC    9    8   17
COL    8    9   17
TEX    9    7   16
CIN    9    6   15
BOS    6    5   11
TOR    6    5   11
MIL    7    3   10
PHI    2    8   10
CLE    5    3    8
ARI    4    3    7
BAL    3    3    6
DET    3    3    6
KCR    0    6    6
NYY    5    1    6
WSN    2    4    6
ATL    1    4    5
CHW    1    4    5
HOU    2    3    5
LAD    3    2    5
SEA    2    3    5
STL    3    2    5
OAK    3    1    4
SDP    1    3    4
LAA    2    2    4
PIT    1    2    3
SFG    1    2    3
TBR    2    1    3
FLA    1    1    2
MIN    0    2    2
NYM    0    0    0

So these are 3-HR games by home-team players, and by visiting players, and the total.

Check out the disparities for the Brewers, who have hit a lot more at home than their visitors have, and the Phillies, who have yielded a lot more at home than they’ve hit.

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The Dwight Goodens
The Dwight Goodens
12 years ago
Reply to  Andy

The Mets are the missing team.

nightfly
12 years ago
Reply to  Andy

B-b-b-but… but they moved the fences in! That sucker should play like Coors!

birtelcom
Editor
12 years ago
Reply to  Andy

3-homer games at Shea: Dave Kingman for the Cubs in 1979 Pete Rose for the Reds in 1978 (his only 3-homer game) Richie Allen for the Phillies in 1968 No Met has ever hit three at home. Eight Mets have hit three homers in a game on the road (including Kingman). The Mets are one of two franchises that have no three-homer games at home since 1962. The Twins are the other one. Going back to 1918, the one and only time the Twins franchise have had a hitter with a three-homer game at home was Jim Lemon’s three-homer game… Read more »

Richard Chester
Richard Chester
12 years ago
Reply to  birtelcom

I could find only two other searchable games where a player hit 3 there, Joe DiMaggio in 1950 and Rocky Colavito in 1961.

Michael
Michael
12 years ago

Royals: 0-6, that’s not too good

RichardKC
RichardKC
12 years ago
Reply to  Michael

I wonder if the Royals have ever had a player hit 3 homers in a game, especially at home.

Nick Pain
Nick Pain
12 years ago
Reply to  RichardKC

They actually had a player do this in 1991, the year before Andy’s data starts. Danny Tartabull had 3 home runs at Royals Stadium on 7/6/1991. Of course, they still lost.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/KCA/KCA199107060.shtml

Phil Gaskill
Phil Gaskill
12 years ago
Reply to  RichardKC

Freddy Patek did it. Don’t quite remember what year.

George Brett did it. Against the Yankees. In the playoffs. (Of course, that one doesn’t count. . . .)

Ed
Ed
12 years ago
Reply to  Phil Gaskill

Patek’s actually came when he was with the Angels (June 20, 1980). He threw in a double for good measure.

Richard Chester
Richard Chester
12 years ago
Reply to  Ed

Patek hit only 5 HRs that year and 41 lifetime. I know of only one other player who hit 3 HRs in a game and had fewer lifetime HRs. Bill Glynn, who hit 3 in a game in 1954, had 10 lifetime.

Phil Gaskill
Phil Gaskill
12 years ago
Reply to  Ed

I’ll be darned: you’re right. (Not that it’s so amazing that you’re right about something, but I was so *sure*. . . .)

Richard Chester
Richard Chester
12 years ago
Reply to  Ed

This is a follow-up to my post #10. Here is a partial list of 3-HR in a game players who had fewer lifetime HRs than Patek.

Player………..HR
Bob T hurman…..35
Tommy Brown……31
Del Wilber……19
J. Pendleton…..19
Jim Tobin……17
Don Leppert…..15
Tuffy Rhodes….13
Bill Glynn……10
Merv Connors…..8

Jim Tobin, of course, is the only pitcher to hit 3 HRs in a game and Tommy Brown is the youngest player to hit a HR.

Tmckelv
Tmckelv
12 years ago
Reply to  Ed

the only one I remember is Tuffy Rhodes for the cubs against the mets on opening day I believe.

nightfly
12 years ago
Reply to  Ed

You are correct. I think he hit two (if not all three) off of Doc Gooden. Eventually, he wound up playing in Japan.

Brent
Brent
12 years ago
Reply to  Phil Gaskill

And the Royals lost that playoff game as well. F’ing Yankees.

Voomo Zanzibar
Voomo Zanzibar
12 years ago
Reply to  Brent

I believe the term is “Damn Yankees.”

And Brett & Co more than made up for it two years later.

(During the regular season, Brett had one homer in 50 PA vs Catfish.)

Jimbo
Jimbo
12 years ago

Just makes Barry’s HR record even more impressive.