Reds P Tom Browning is fined $500 for leaving the Cincinnati dugout during the Reds’ 4 – 3 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field, and watching the contest from the roof of a three-story building across Sheffield Avenue.
Oakland OF Rickey Henderson leads off both games of the A’s doubleheader against the Indians with home runs. It is the first time this has happened since 1913, when Harry Hooper performed the feat for the Boston Red Sox. The Athletics win the 1st game, 6 – 5, but the Indians come back to take the nightcap, 6 – 2.
At the Astrodome, the Jalisco Charros beat the Monterrey Industrials, 2 – 1. It is the only 20th Century Mexican League game held in a major league stadium.
On July 3, 1993 Detroit’s Cecil Fielder becomes the third player in history to homer onto the left field roof at Tiger Stadium, doing so in the Tigers’ 11 – 5 loss to the Rangers. Harmon Killebrew and Frank Howard are the only other players to accomplish the feat. Source Baseball Reference July 3
On July 2, 1993 At Philadelphia’s Veterans Stadium, the latest game in major league history ends at 4:40 am as relief pitcher Mitch Williams, in his first at-bat of the season, singles home the winning run in the 10th inning, giving the Philliesa 6 – 5 victory over the Padres. The game, which started at 1:26 am due to…
On July 2, 1993 Chicago OF Sammy Sosa gets six hits, one short of the National League record, in the Cubs’ 11 – 8 win over the Rockies. Source: Baseball Reference July 2
On June 27, 1993 Atlanta OF Ron Gant fans four times against Houston’s Darryl Kile, giving him seven consecutive strikeouts, and a record-tying 10 in his last three games. The Astros and Kile defeat the Braves, 3 – 0.
On June 27, 1993 The Calgary Cannons of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League explode for 35 hits in a 23 – 12 pasting of the Las Vegas Stars. Cannons OF Lee Tinsley goes 7 for 8 in the contest. Calgary ties a PCL record with nine consecutive hits in the 2nd inning.
Carlton Fisk of the White Sox, plays his 2,226th and final major league game, surpassing Bob Boone’s record of 2,225 for most games caught. Fisk reluctantly retires with 3,999 total bases, the most ever for a catcher. The Sox will exacerbate Fisk’s bitterness by refusing to allow him into the locker room after the Sox make the playoffs this year. When the Sox retire Fisk’s #72 in 1997, Fisk will request that Jerry Reinsdorf and GM Ron Schueler not be there for the ceremony, and when he goes into Cooperstown he will wear a Red Sox cap. A clerical error about three games caught in 1981, in which Fisk relieved, initially gives him a total of 2,229 games caught. This error will appear on Fisk’s Hall of Fame plaque when he is inducted, the 5th edition of Total Baseball, and the 1997 edition of The Sports Encyclopedia – Baseball. Other records books correctly show him with 2,226 games caught lifetime. SABR historian Wayne McElreavy and others note the discrepancy and the plaque and subsequent editions of the record books will correct the total to 2,226.
The Mets tie an 86-year-old record when they lose to the Cardinals, 8 – 5. They have not won two straight games for the 61st consecutive time.
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