Hunter Goodman hit three balls out of Target Field in five trips to the plate. Each one went a different direction.
The first, his 23rd of the year, went out to left field. The second, his 24th, went to center. The third — a fly ball to left-center that scored Jake McCarthy and Ezequiel Tovar ahead of him — was his 25th, and it brought two men home with it. Colorado won 8-5.
This was the sixth three-homer game of 2026. What the scorecard holds that the box score does not is the shape of it: Goodman stepped in five times. He grounded out, shortstop to first. He struck out swinging. His three hits were three home runs, and there was nothing between them — no single, no double, no ball that stayed in the park.
That is what makes the feat hard. Goodman's best swing left the bat at 113.3 mph, and his longest ball came down 428 feet from the plate. Those are the margins a home run occupies — the kind of contact that, once, is a good night. To do it three times in the same game, with nothing else falling in — no cheap hit to pad the line, no ball that finds a gap — that is the part that does not happen often. Six times all year, across both leagues.
The first two home runs were solo shots. The third scored two. He went to left field, then center field, then left-center — three different directions in one night, and three swings that accounted for every run he drove in.
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