Phillies starter Mike Welch, fresh up from Scranton, made his big-league debut against the Giants—and quickly learned how unforgiving MLB hitters can be. In the second inning, Ellis Burks, Barry Bonds, and Jeff Kent went back-to-back-to-back, giving San Francisco a commanding 6-0 lead. Tensions boiled over later in the Giants’ 15-3 rout, capped by a bench-clearing brawl that left little doubt this was a debut to remember for all the wrong reasons.