Alec Burleson hits three homers Aug. 3

Alec Burleson gave Major League Baseball its headline performance on August 3 when the St. Louis Cardinals outscored the New York Yankees 13-7 at Yankee Stadium. MLB’s official game recap said Burleson hit three home runs in the Cardinals’ comeback victory, and the league’s all-games highlight package for August 3 put his night in the headline. The 27-year-old outfielder and first baseman finished with six RBIs in what MLB.com described as the first three-homer game of his career. The performance also carried a Yankee Stadium angle: MLB.com said Burleson became the first visiting player to hit three homers there since Oakland’s Jordan Diaz on May 9, 2023, and the first National League player to do it in the Bronx since interleague play began in 1997. (mlb.com) ### Which game did Burleson take over on August 3? The Cardinals’ 13-7 win over the Yankees is the game tied to Burleson’s three-homer outburst. MLB’s official recap page lists the matchup as Cardinals at Yankees on August 3, 2026, and says St. Louis rallied late behind Burleson’s power. MLB’s YouTube compilation, published on August 4 under the title “Highlights from ALL GAMES on 8/3,” also treated Burleson’s night as the marquee item. (mlb.com) The video description named Burleson first among the day’s top performers across the league. ### What exactly did Burleson do? Burleson hit three home runs and drove in six runs, according to MLB’s game recap and highlight clips. (mlb.com) MLB’s “Curtain Call” video on the game said he recorded the first three-homer game of his career in the 13-7 victory. His third homer came in the top of the eighth inning. (youtube.com) MLB’s in-game highlight page said the final shot was a two-run homer to right field off a 90.1 mph slider, traveled 417 feet and pushed the Cardinals’ lead to 13-7. ### Why did MLB spotlight this game leaguewide? (mlb.com) MLB’s own packaging answered that directly. The league used “Alec Burleson’s THREE-HOMER GAME and MORE!” in the title of its all-games August 3 recap, making his performance the organizing hook for the day’s highlights. MLB.com also published a standalone story on Burleson’s night rather than leaving it only in a standard game recap. (mlb.com) In that story, Burleson said, “I felt good. I felt I was getting the barrel to it,” after his three-homer game. ### How unusual was the night at Yankee Stadium? MLB.com said Burleson was the first visiting player with a three-homer game at Yankee Stadium since Diaz did it for the Athletics in 2023. (youtube.com) The same report said no National League player had done it in the Bronx since interleague play began in 1997. (mlb.com) Those details help explain why the league elevated the performance beyond a team-only recap. The game produced both a comeback scoreline and a park-specific milestone in one night. ### Where can readers watch the official recaps? MLB’s official Cardinals game-recap page includes “Alec Burleson crushes three homers in 13-7 comeback” under August 3. (mlb.com) MLB’s official YouTube channel also carries the all-games roundup from August 3, and its video list shows team-specific full-game highlights posted the following day. (mlb.com) As of August 5, the official follow-up material includes the Cardinals-Yankees recap from the August 3 game and MLB’s broader highlight packages for August 3 and August 4. (mlb.com 1) (mlb.com 2)