Late in the evening of Sept. 7, 1993, or actually very early on the morning of Sept. 8, Cardinals outfielder Mark Whiten came to bat in the ninth inning of a game in Cincinnati that the Cardinals led 13-2.
“The bat boy said, ‘Are you going to try to hit another home run?’” Whiten recalled. “I said, ‘I didn’t try to hit the first three. Why should I try now?’”
Not trying, Whiten ripped his record-tying fourth homer of the game at Riverfront Stadium as hard-throwing Reds reliever Rob Dibble supplied much of the power with his high 90s mph fastball.