Three weeks into the 1994 baseball season, Tony Gwynn was driving home from the ballpark with his 11-year-old son sitting next to him in the car.
Gwynn had gone 5-for-5 that April night against Philadelphia.
‘They’re going to hit me tomorrow,” Gwynn said to his son.
“What?,” Tony Gwynn Jr. said. “I watched the whole game. Why would they do that?”
“They think I’m stealing signs,” his father said.
Right-hander Curt Schilling was on the mound the next day for the Phillies. His last warmup pitch hit the screen. After Padres leadoff hitter Craig Shipley flied out, Schilling’s first pitch to Gwynn hit the right fielder on the side of the right knee.