Rafael Palmeiro has his second game this season with 4 extra-base hits as he paces the Rangers to an 8 – 5 victory over the Yankees. Palmeiro has 2 homers and 2 doubles; the two such games this season ties a major league record.
P Denis Boucher makes his Expos debut in a 4 – 3 win over Colorado. Boucher and C Joe Siddall form only the second all-Canadian battery in modern big league history.
1993 – Philadelphia 1B John Kruk walks in his first at bat in the Phils’ 5 – 3 win over Cincinnati, giving him 100 free passes for the season. He is the third Phillie to reach the mark this year, making them the first National Leagueteam ever to have such a trio.
The Phillies lose to the Reds by a score of 6 – 5. In doing so, they set a new National League record by not being shut out in 151 consecutive games. The major league mark of 308 is held by the New York Yankees.
On September 4, 1993, Jim Abbott of the New York Yankees throws a 4-0 no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians. Abbott, a one-handed pitcher, becomes the first Yankee to throw a no-hitter since Dave Righetti in 1983. In the ninth inning, leadoff hitter Kenny Lofton is loudly booed by the fans after he fouls off a…
1993 – Team owners vote to split the leagues into three divisions and add a wild card round to the playoffs for the 1994 season.
The Rockies, drawing a crowd 47,699 for their 62nd home game, surpass the 1982 Dodgers when the team attracts 3,617,863 fans to Denver’s Mile High Stadium, setting a new National League single-season attendance record. The expansion club will also break the 1992 Blue Jays’ major league mark of 4,028,318 before the season is over.
1993 – Terry Mulholland beats the Cubs‚ 4 – 1‚ the 149th game in a row in which the Phils have scored‚ one short of the National League record set by Pittsburgh in 1924-1925.
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