Denver Post staff writer Mike Burrows recaps the major moments in Series history throughout the week.
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GAME 6, OCT. 21, 1975
Fair game at Fenway
Red Sox 7, Reds 6
Bernie Carbo can boast about his three-run, pinch-hit homer for the Red Sox in the eighth inning of Game 6 that tied the score 6-6 at Boston’s Fenway Park. But the lasting image from that thriller, one of the legendary games in World Series history, is native New Englander and Red Sox star Carlton Fisk homering off the left-field foul pole to beat Pat Darcy and the Big Red Machine in the 12th inning.
Fisk didn’t just hit the homer. He doubled the drama by trying to wave the ball fair as it headed deep into the Boston night.
“The celebration of that moment,” Fisk told The Boston Globe, “has made me realize how popular baseball is and how it affects people’s lives.”
The Reds kept Fisk from celebrating too much. They won the World Series the next day at Fenway with a 4-3 victory in Game 7.
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GAME 6, OCT. 23, 1993
A real shocker
Blue Jays 8, Phillies 6
Coming from Wichita State, home of the Shockers, Joe Carter was schooled to stun.
And stun he did, ending the 1993 World Series with a dramatic homer off the “Wild Thing,” Phillies relief pitcher Mitch Williams, at Toronto’s SkyDome.
Carter’s one-out, three-run shot in the ninth inning off a 2-2 pitch from Williams came after Lenny Dykstra helped the Phillies score five in the seventh with a three-run homer.
Carter erased the Phillies’ 6-5 lead with one electrifying swing. He circled the bases wildly and the Blue Jays repeated as World Series champions.
Williams, who had 43 saves in 1993 at age 28, never pitched for the Phillies again. The left-hander was traded to the Houston Astros and finished his 192-save career with Kansas City, compiling a 10.80 ERA in seven appearances for the Royals in 1997.
