Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 8, 1993 TAG: 9309080250
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CINCINNATI LENGTH: Short
Mark Whiten hit four home runs to tie a major-league record Tuesday night and drove in 12 runs to equal another mark in perhaps the greatest one-game offensive display in baseball history as St. Louis beat Cincinnati 15-2 in the second game of a doubleheader.
Whiten misplayed Reggie Sanders' liner into a two-run, ninth-inning triple that gave the Reds a 14-13 victory over St. Louis in the first game. Whiten shook it off with his four-homer, 12-RBI game performance.
On a night records fell or totereed, Whiten did most of the pushing.
The teams used a major-league record 15 pitchers in the first game. Ninety-eight batters saw 350 pitches. There were five blown leads, 27 runs, 36 hits and 13 walks among the mix.
Whiten's two-run homer off Rob Dibble in the ninth helped tie Jim Bottomley's National League record of 12 RBI. The last major-leaguer to hit four homers was Atlanta's Bob Horner in 1986.
Whiten, 25, in his third major-league season, was acquired from the Cleveland Indians on March 31 for pitcher Mark Clark and shortstop Juan Andujar. He began his career with the Toronto Blue Jays.
In the first inning of the second game, he hit his second career grand slam and his first in the NL off Larry Luebbers (2-4). After fouling out in his next at-bat, he added three-run homers in the sixth and seventh off Mike Anderson, who was making his major-league debut.
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