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Tigers' Colt Keith makes absurd baseball history only ever done better by Al Kaline originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Sometimes, it's just your night.
Monday night was Colt Keith's night for the Detroit Tigers.
Keith hit one home run, then another, then a third.
In the process, he became the youngest Tigers player to have a three-homer game since 1955:
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For what it's worth, Keith will turn 25 years old in August.
The 24-year old Keith wasn't too close to the Tigers record, though, which is actually also the MLB record for a three-HR game.
That was set in 1955 by Al Kaline, the all-time great.
Kaline was 20 years, 119 days old on April 17, 1955 when he launched three home runs. No one has done it younger.
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The Tigers have had some promising bats break into the majors at a young age, but none of them have done this.
Keith is the one who got closer to Kaline than anyone else, although still a few years off.
It's one of those nights a player probably won't forget. Keith pretty much couldn't miss, and that's all that really ends up counting on this night.
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