This brought a struggling Dave Winfield to the plate. Winfield, to this point in the series, was hitting below .250 and was hitless in his four previous at-bats in the game. He had also struggled in his only other appearance in the World Series (he had hit just .045), when he was a member of the 1981 New York Yankees team that lost that year's World Series. But he had had success against Leibrandt previously, with a lifetime average against him of .302 including four home runs. Additionally, Winfield was known to feast on off-speed pitches like changeups, which were also Leibrandt's strength, while Reardon in the bullpen was more of a fastball pitcher, making Cox's move more questionable in sticking with Leibrandt. He was worked to a full count by the 41-year-old veteran outfielder, and on the sixth pitch of the at-bat Winfield connected on a line drive down the left field line. White scored from second and after the ball took a bad hop off the left field corner and skipped away from Gant, Alomar scored without a play. Winfield's hit was his first career World Series extra-base hit, and at 41 he was the oldest player in baseball history to record one in the World Series. Leibrandt managed to retire Maldonado to end the inning, but as he had done in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series, he gave up a run-scoring extra base hit to give the opposing team the lead; in that game, he allowed a walk-off home run by Kirby Puckett which forced Game 7. It was also the last time Leibrandt pitched for the Braves; he would retire after spending 1993 with the Texas Rangers.