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 NEW YORK (AP) - Hideki Matsui tied the World Series record with six RBIs on a home run, single and double that each drove in two runs, and the New York Yankees led the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 after six innings in Game 6 on Wednesday night as they neared their record 27th championship.
Matsui's third homer of the Series gave starter Andy Pettitte a 2-0 lead in the second inning.
Philadelphia, which fought off elimination by winning 8-6 in Game 5, got a run back in the third on Jimmy Rollins' sacrifice fly. Matsui hit a bases-loaded single with two outs in the third, then greeted reliever J.A. Happ with a two-run double off the right-field wall that boosted New York's lead to 7-1 in a three-run fifth.
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