» August 4, 1993: White Sox 3B Robin Ventura charges Nolan Ryan after a pitch hits him in the 3rd inning. Ryan gets Ventura in a headlock and throws six punches. Ventura is suspended two games for his actions, while Ryan is not disciplined.

» October 10, 1993: Despite homers by Ellis Burks and Robin Ventura, the Blue Jays take Game Five of the ALCS with a 5-3 win. Roberto Alomar strokes three hits to back Juan Guzman's 2nd win of the series.

» April 24, 1994: Julio Franco and Robin Ventura twice hit back-to-back home runs in Chicago's 7-6 loss to Detroit. It is the 17th time it has happened in major league history, and the 2nd time this week.

» April 27, 1995: Milwaukee's starter Cal Eldred picks up a win with five innings of work in a 9–5 win over the White Sox. Tim Raines and Frank Thomas hit consecutive homers in the 7th with two out, and then in the 8th Robin Ventura hits Alberto Reyes first ML pitch for another homer.

» June 29, 1995: The White Sox pound out 22 hits in a 17-13 win over the Brewers. 3B Robin Ventura gets five of those hits, including a home run, and scores four runs while driving home 3.

» September 4, 1995: Chicago 3B Robin Ventura becomes the 8th player in history to hit two grand slams in a single game, doing so in the 4th and 5th innings of the White Sox 14-3 win over the Rangers. The last to do it was Frank Robinson in 1970. Ventura adds a double and a walk.

» September 23, 1995: White Sox OF Lance Johnson strokes six hits—including three triples—scores four runs and drives in four others as Chicago defeats Minnesota, 14-4. 3B Robin Ventura gets five hits for the Chisox, including three doubles.

» April 22, 1996: In Arlington, Harold Baines, with a 3-run blast, and Robin Ventura hit consecutive homers in the 6th as the Sox halt the Rangers' five-game win streak, 12–4. Ventura and Danny Tartabull then hit back-to-back homers in the 8th to cinch Alex Fernandez's 3rd win.

» May 19, 1996: The White Sox continue to abuse the Tigers, winning 14–3, as Robin Ventura and Darren Lewis hit grand slams. The Sox become just the 4th ML team to ever hit three grand slams in two consecutive games. Detroit pitchers give up 41 runs in the three games with Chicago and the team ERA balloons to 7.35.

» May 26, 1996: Frank Thomas, Harold Baines, and Robin Ventura belt consecutive homers in Chicago's 7-run 8th inning as the Sox pound the Brewers, 12–1. Chad Kreuter adds a 4th homer in the frame as Chicago becomes the 16th team to hit four homers in an inning; The Twins are the only team to have hit 5. The Thomas, Baines, Ventura trio also homered in yesterday's 9–7 win over Milwaukee.

» August 13, 1996: Robin Ventura belts his team-record 9th grand slam to pace the White Sox to an 8–4 win over the Yankees. David Weathers serves up the gopher.

» March 21, 1997: In an exhibition game, the White Sox 3B Robin Ventura dislocates his right ankle and suffers a compound fracture in his lower leg. The injury occurs while trying to protect a bruise on his left calf, he slides home and catches the spikes on his right shoe. He will be out of action until July 24.

» April 5, 1997: Brian Hunter has four hits and three stolen bases as Detroit outlasts the White Sox, 15–12. Bobby Higginson and Damion Easley each hit 3-run home runs. The Sox Chris Snopek, filling in at 3B for Robin Ventura, out with a broken ankle, has three hits but makes his 3rd E in four games.

» July 31, 1997: The San Francisco Giants receive starting pitchers Wilson Alvarez and Danny Darwin, along with top reliever Roberto Hernandez from the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox, just three 1/2 games behind Cleveland in the American League Central, receive minor league SS Mike Caruso, OF Brian Manning, and Ps Lorenzo Barcelo, Keith Foulke, Bob Howry, and Ken Vining. In the house cleaning, the Sox have moved eight players with a combined 92 years of ML experience. Sox 3B Robin Ventura observes, "We didn't realize August first was the end of the season."

» April 29, 1998: Led by Wil Cordero and Albert Belle, the White Sox pound on the Orioles, 16–7, ruining Sidey Ponson's 1st ML start. Cordero, cut by Boston on the last day of spring training, has two home runs and five RBI, and Belle has two home runs and four RBI. Belle follows a Frank Thomas home run with his 1st dinger, and Robin Ventura follows Belle's 2nd with another. Thomas adds a big hurt, breaking reliever Norm Charlton's nose with a line single in the 7th.

» July 17, 1998: Both Rafael Palmeiro and Albert Belle hit their 300th homers tonight. Palmeiro is 3–for–4 as his Orioles win, 4–1 over the Angels, and improve their record since the All–Star break to 9–0. Belle's homer—his 10th in 10 games since the break—and Robin Ventura's 9th–inning homer give the White Sox a 4–3 victory over the visiting Indians.

» December 2, 1998: The Mets sign free agent 3B Robin Ventura to a 4-year contract.

» May 10, 1999: The Red Sox pound the Mariners, 12-4, as SS Nomar Garciaparra leads the way with three home runs, including two grand slams. Garciaparra drives home 10 of Boston's runs as he clouts a bases loaded homer in the 1st, a 2-run shot in the 3rd, and another grand slam in the 8th. Nomar is the first Bosox since Jim Tabor, in 1939, to slam two slams in a game, and just the 9th in ML history. Robin Ventura last did it, in 1995.

» May 20, 1999: The Mets sweep the Brewers in a DH, winning the 1st game, 11-10, and the 2nd, 10-1. 3B Robin Ventura slugs a grand slam in each contest, becoming the 1st player in history to do so in both ends of a DH. Ventura also becomes the 1st player to hit a pair of grand slams on the same day on two separate occasions.

» October 17, 1999: The Mets edge the Braves in a 15-inning thriller, 4-3, to move within one game of Atlanta in their NLCS. Robin Ventura's grand slam in the bottom half of the 15th wins it for NY, but his Met teammates mob him before he can reach 2nd base. He never completes his round of the bases and gets credit for a single instead of a grand slam. The Braves leave a postseason-record 19 players on base in the contest. The Mets use nine pitchers in the game, with rookie Octavio Dotel getting the win.

» October 8, 2000: The Mets defeat the Giants, 4-0, on Bobby Jones' 1-hit shutout to take their division series. Robin Ventura homers for NY. Jones' gem is the 6th complete game 1-hitter in postseason history. Jeff Kent's 5th inning double is SF's only hit as Jones puts the Giants down in order in eight of the nine innings.

» December 7, 2001: The Mets send 3B Robin Ventura to the Yankees in exchange for OF David Justice. It is the first deal between the two New York teams in eight years.

» April 8, 2002: The Yankees pound out 22 hits in defeating the Blue Jays, 16–3. Alfonso Soriano gets five hits for NY, including a 2B and 3–run home run, while Robin Ventura drives home six runs.