The first went to right-center, the second to right, the third to left.
Three home runs in one game, and Colt Keith spread them across the outfield. Detroit beat Houston 9–3 at Daikin Park, and by the last one the score was almost beside the point. This was Keith's night.
This is the third three-home-run game of the 2026 season, and it is the middle of June. That pace tells you how rarely this happens: the right pitch, the right count, the right swing, three times in the same evening. Keith had all of it, and he did not repeat himself. Right-center, right field, left field.
His night did not start with a home run. It started with a pitch that hit him — Keith plunked with the bases loaded, Kevin McGonigle scoring, Riley Greene to third, Dillon Dingler to second. His first RBI cost him a bruise. The next five came on three swings.
He homered to right-center, Dingler on base. He struck out swinging. He homered to right, Dingler on base again. He homered to left, bases empty.
The strikeout sits between the second and third home runs. It is the at-bat that makes the night a night instead of a line. He went deep, he missed, and then he went deep twice more. The third home run was his fourth of the season. He entered the game with one.
Six RBI. Three hits, all over the fence. Nothing he hit left the bat harder than 108.8 mph or traveled farther than 411 feet. Detroit scored nine. Keith drove in six and scored three.
Three home runs. Right-center, right, left. The last one turned the outfield complete.
