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G29: Yankees 3, Red Sox 2

The official box score of this game will note that Yankees reliever Andrew Miller recorded his sixth save. The official scorer should actually give that save to home plate umpire Ron Kulpa.

It was Kulpa's magically expanding strike zone that gave the Yankees two key outs in the eighth inning and it was Kulpa who, after getting an earful from David Ortiz on a questionable called strike 2 with the bases loaded in the ninth inning, called Big Papi out on strikes on a pitch that was nearly in the dirt. Kulpa could then be seen smirking as Papi (quite naturally) exploded - and was subsequently ejected.