Joe Carter was sure his first-inning grand slam on this date — April 23 — in 1990 would be washed away.
Just his luck, too.
The Padres hadn’t been rained out at The Murph in seven years when a rare storm forced delay after delay.
“I thought it was going to get rained out,” Carter said after the game. “That was my honest opinion after they took the tarp off and it started raining again. I figured it was going to be time for me to go home and just say, ‘Well, I lost a grand slam.