Carter off Williams

October 23, 1993, Game 6 at SkyDome, attendance 52,195. The Phillies led, 6–5, and a win would have forced a seventh game. Jim Fregosi brought in Mitch Williams, who had 43 saves that season and had already been scored on heavily in Game 4. The ninth began with Williams, working from the stretch, nearly throwing a pitch after time had been called. He held the ball and fell off toward the first-base side.

He walked Rickey Henderson on four pitches. Devon White flied out. Paul Molitor singled, sending Henderson to second. Joe Carter, ahead in the count and then even at 2–2, hit a pitch over the left-field fence. Williams called it a mistake, a pitch that was supposed to be up and away. Fregosi remembered a bad slider. Carter said he lost the ball in the lights and knew only that it had the height. The Blue Jays won, 8–6.

It was the second walk-off home run to end a World Series, after Bill Mazeroski's in 1960, and the first of them hit while the home team trailed. The retelling begins and ends with the swing. The inning had already included a walk to the league's best base runner and a single by the man who had homered earlier in the game.