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Three homers in a game: Not such an exclusive club anymore

August 28, 2017 at 4:02AM
Minnesota Twins' Byron Buxton looks from the dugout after hitting a solo home run off Toronto Blue Jays relief pitcher Tim Mayza during the ninth inning of baseball game action in Toronto, Sunday Aug. 27 2017. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)
Minnesota Twins' Byron Buxton looks from the dugout after hitting a solo home run off Toronto Blue Jays relief pitcher Tim Mayza during the ninth inning of baseball game action in Toronto, Sunday Aug. 27 2017. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Through their first 8,874 regular-season games, the Twins had four players hit three home runs in a game; that total has been matched over the past 188.

• Bob Allison, May 17, 1963, at Cleveland

• Harmon Killebrew, Sept. 21, 1963, at Boston*

• Tony Oliva, July 3, 1973, at Kansas City

• Justin Morneau, July 6, 2007, at Chicago WS**

• Max Kepler, Aug. 1, 2016, at Cleveland

• Brian Dozier, Sept. 5, 2016, vs. Kansas City

• Eddie Rosario, June 13, 2017, vs. Seattle

• Byron Buxton, Aug. 27, 2017, at Toronto

*-first game of doubleheade; **-second game of doubleheader

Minnesota Twins' Byron Buxton gestures as he runs off the field at the end of a baseball game as his team defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto, Sunday Aug. 27 2017. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)
Minnesota Twins' Byron Buxton gestures as he runs off the field at the end of a baseball game as his team defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto, Sunday Aug. 27 2017. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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