The Toronto Blue Jays led the World Series three games to two with a chance to clinch their second championship in a row with a victory at home. They led 5-1 heading into the 7th inning only to have the Phillies rally for five runs to take a 6-5 lead.
Philly wiggled out of a bases loaded jam in the bottom of the 8th when Larry Anderson, their third pitcher of the inning, got Pat Borders to pop out.
After his club failed to add to their lead in the top of the 9th, manager Jim Fregosi brought in his closer, Mitch Williams, to preserve the lead. The southpaw saved a career-high 43 games in 49 opportunities. But many of those saves were far from simple. He had a tremendous fastball but often had trouble controlling it. He walked 44 in 62 innings and gave up 56 hits. He earned the nickname "Wild Thing" after the character played by Charlie Sheen in the comedy movie Major League. True to form, Williams walked Rickey Henderson on four straight pitches. With the greatest base stealer in baseball history on first, Williams couldn't devote 100% of his attention to the batters. However, Henderson did not try to steal second. Devon White worked the count to 3-and-2 before whacking a fly to deep LCF that Milt Thompson flagged down. Paul Molitor then lined a single to CF, sending Henderson to 2nd. That brought cleanup hitter Joe Carter to the plate. Although his batting average was only .254, Joe led the Blue Jays in RBIs with 121 and in home runs with 33. '93 was the seventh year in the last eight in which he had driven in 100+ runs and the other year, '88, he knocked home 98. With the count 2-and-1, Williams threw a curveball. Carter took a monster swing but missed the ball by a foot or more. Williams had been told to keep the ball up and away and "don't miss down and in." But pitchers don't always put the ball where they want. Mitch threw a knee-high fastball right into Carter's wheelhouse. Joe swatted a liner down the LF line that barely cleared the wall, but that was enough for him to join Bill Mazeroski of the 1960 Pirates as the only players to hit a walk-off homer to end a World Series. Carter hopped and jumped around the bases, unable to contain his glee. Blue Jays' radio announcer Tom Cheek proclaimed, "Touch 'em all, Joe. You'll never hit a bigger home run in your life!" Watch Carter's at-bat and the subsequent celebration ... Toronto players and coaches flew out of the dugout and mobbed Carter as he reached home plate, nearly crushing him in a dog pile. His teammates hoisted him onto their shoulders.

L-R: Carter's home run swing, exultation around the bases, and carried off.

Blue Jays bullpen coach John Sullivan caught the home run ball. He said someone from the Baseball Hall of Fame asked him if he had seen the ball, and he fibbed and said no. Carter: "When I came back from doing all my interviews, I came down into the clubhouse and John Sullivan says, 'Hey, I got something you may want.' It was the baseball. My wife was there, and I said, 'You've been by my side all these years,' and I gave the ball to her."
Despite hitting the Series winner, Carter was nosed out for World Series MVP by his teammate, Molitor.
Williams received death threats immediately after his final pitch. People went to his house to throw eggs, rocks, and whatever else they could put their hands on. Police had to come to keep the peace.
A few days later, Carter returned to his house. "Someone had cut my grass real low and put the No. 29 in my grass. They had it painted blue and white. Then they had this big ol' sign across my garage door that said, 'The fat lady doesn't sing until Joe Carter swings.' I open my garage, and all these blue and white balloons come out. My neighbors had done that. Streamers everywhere. That was quite a treat. And then about an hour later, I gotta pick up all the stuff."