Rookie Jeff Bagwell hits only the ninth upper-deck home run at Three Rivers Stadium
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On May 5 , 1991 – Houston Astro Rookie Jeff Bagwell’s pinch-hit drive in the seventh off Bob Kipper made it 4-1 and landed five rows into the upper-deck stands. It was estimated at 456 feet, the longest homer to left since Three Rivers opened in 1970.
Only three other players – Bob Robertson, Greg Luzinski and Howard Johnson – have homered into the upper deck in left.
Willie Stargell and Bobby Bonilla have the only homers into the upper deck in right, with Stargell doing it four times from 1970-73.
“I never saw it,” Bagwell said of his third major-league homer. “You hit three homers a year like I do and they (the pitchers) don’t like it if you start watching them . . .”
Steve Finley follows with a two-run shot for the winning margin of 6-4.
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