Glavine retired the Blue Jays in order in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings, while the Braves only managed to have one runner reach base against relievers Todd Stottlemyre and David Wells after Morris left the game following the sixth.

[30] On August 27, 1992, the Blue Jays traded rookie infielder Jeff Kent and minor league outfield prospect Ryan Thompson to the New York Mets for ace starting pitcher, David Cone.

[36] A controversial call was made by umpire Mike Reilly in the top of the fourth inning with Atlanta leading 1–0 after David Justice walked, stole second, advanced to third on Manuel Lee's error on Jeff Blauser's ground ball, and scored on a wild pitch from Cone in the bottom of the second.

With third baseman Kelly Gruber stepping to the plate, the Braves called upon their own August trade acquisition to pitch, former Boston Red Sox closer and the then-holder of baseball's all-time career saves record Jeff Reardon.

[42] He managed to strike Gruber out, preserving Atlanta's lead, which did not change as setup man Duane Ward set them down in order in the bottom of the eighth.

"[43] After a walk to pinch-hitter Derek Bell (batting for Lee), Toronto reserve infielder Ed Sprague Jr. pinch-hit for Ward and drilled a pitch from Reardon to left for a two-run homer to give the Blue Jays the lead.

Acting manager Jimy Williams, Atlanta's third base coach, pulled Avery from the game and brought in hard-throwing Mark Wohlers to face Carter.

CBS announcer Tim McCarver questioned the strategy, because Alomar was a threat to steal a base and the left-handed Avery had a quicker pickoff move than the right-handed Wohlers.

Gaston responded by calling on right-handed Ed Sprague Jr., who had a pinch-hit home run in the in Game 2, to pinch hit to give the Blue Jays a platoon advantage.

On Reardon's third offspeed pitch, Maldonado drove the ball over a drawn-in outfield to bring home Alomar with the winning run, giving the Blue Jays the lead in the series.

[71] While Williams was the acting manager in the bottom of the ninth inning, Cox admitted after the game that he called for all of Atlanta's pitching changes from just beyond the team's dugout.

Although Key managed to pick Nixon off of first, he immediately gave up a single to Jeff Blauser, hitting second in place of the resting Deion Sanders, and allowed him to steal second.

Tom Henke closed the game for the Blue Jays by retiring Pendleton, Smith, and David Justice in order in the ninth and Toronto found itself a win away from becoming the first World Series championship team from outside the United States.

Toronto countered by returning Jack Morris as starter, as he looked to atone for his postseason struggles and, for a second consecutive year, win the deciding game of the World Series.

In fact, Braves third baseman Terry Pendleton had been a member of that Cardinals team and met with his teammates before the game to remind them of the possibility that they might come back and win the series.

After walking Lee to lead off the seventh, he was pulled in favor of Mike Stanton, who got White to ground into a fielder's choice and then induced a double play from Roberto Alomar to end the threat.

The Blue Jays only received one more baserunner the rest of the night as Joe Carter singled, stole second, then advanced to third on a sacrifice fly by Ed Sprague Jr. in the eighth inning but got nothing additional.

Smith's grand slam was the first in a World Series since 1988, when Jose Canseco hit one in the Oakland Athletics' eventual 5–4 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Entering the game, the Blue Jays bullpen had not allowed a run all series against the Braves, with the streak continuing with two combined innings of work by Todd Stottlemyre and David Wells.

The Braves sent out Charlie Leibrandt to make his first appearance of the World Series against the middle of the Blue Jays' lineup in the top of the tenth.

He retired Maldonado to start the inning, and then after he gave up a single to Gruber he set down Borders on a fly ball and Pat Tabler on a line drive back to the mound.

With two left-handed batters due up in Justice and Bream, Gaston brought in the veteran Key to make his second appearance of the series; he retired both men to keep the game tied.

Leibrandt, a left-gander, would be facing Key and two switch-hitters in White and Alomar, but if the inning was to extend beyond them, matchups with the power hitting Carter and struggling Winfield, both righties, loomed.

With Carter now the batter, the lead run at second base, and Reardon having been warmed up for some time, CBS analyst Tim McCarver remarked on the broadcast that he believed Cox would come out to remove the veteran starter in favor of his struggling closer.

On the very next pitch, Key got Berryhill to hit what should have been a double play ball toward veteran shortstop Alfredo Griffin, who had entered the game as a defensive replacement in the tenth.

At the last moment, however, the ball took a strange hop and bounced off of Griffin's glove, which allowed Blauser to advance to third base and putting the tying run on first with nobody out.

Cox then called for a pinch runner, but with a relatively thin bench left at his disposal he sent out Game 5 winning pitcher John Smoltz to take Berryhill's position.

The ball rolled to Timlin, who fielded it cleanly and fired it to first base in plenty of time to retire Nixon and clinch the series for the Blue Jays.

[79] At 30 years of age, CBS' Sean McDonough became the youngest man to call all nine innings and games of a World Series while serving as a network television employee.

Locally, the Series was called on WGST-AM in Atlanta by Skip Caray, Pete Van Wieren, Ernie Johnson, Joe Simpson, and Don Sutton, and on CJCL-AM in Toronto by Jerry Howarth and Tom Cheek.