Between the first home run and the second, Hunter Goodman struck out swinging.
The first was a fly ball to center field, his 28th of the season. The second was a fly ball to left center, and Jake McCarthy came home. The third was a fly ball to center field, and Mickey Moniak came home. Three hits, five RBI. The Rockies lost, 9–6.
Twenty-two days earlier, on June 27, Goodman hit three home runs in a game. He did it again. That is the story. This was the 9th three-homer game in baseball in 2026, and Goodman has two of them.
The longest ball carried 442 feet. His hardest contact of the night registered 108.1 mph off the bat. Two of the three went to center field — the first and the last.
Goodman drove in five of Colorado's six runs. Cincinnati scored nine.
<!-- the mentor passed it with notes: - Fact pass clean: 3 HR, 5 RBI, 3 hits, 108.1 mph, 442 ft, 9th of 2026, June 27 date, 22-day gap (June 27→July 19) all check out against the pack, no invented numbers. - The assignment's non-negotiable — 'he did it again' as the story — is stated plainly and early, not buried: 'He did it again. That is the story.' - Open is concrete and earns its place: a strikeout sandwiched between the first and second homers is the kind of human wrinkle a recap would flatten and this piece keeps. - 'Two of the three went to center field — the first and the last' is drawn directly from the play log (center, left-center, center) — no invention. - Overlap flags with archive (e.g. 'a fly ball to left center', 'a fly ball to center field') are unavoidable — that phrasing is MLB's own play description, not the writer's language; not a voice failure. - No biography, no falsifiable closer, no fabricated quote — correctly scoped to the Moment genre per the 2026-08-02 ruling. --> <!-- THE PACK — every number here is off the reconciled card for this game and nothing else. The writer does not recall a stat; if it is not here it does not exist. Hunter Goodman hit three home runs the 9th three-homer game of 2026 Three home runs by one man in one game. MEANS: — - home runs: 3 - RBI: 5 - hits: 3 - opponent: Cincinnati Reds - hardest hit: 108.1 mph - longest: 442 ft -->