"I think at this point of the year, we're making ourselves available whenever we can," Miller said. "As bad as I was, instead of kicking over the cooler, I wanted to make sure that [pitching coach] Larry [Rothschild] knew I was ready to go back out. I'm glad I was able to nail it down. Obviously I couldn't have done that without Bird hitting that three-run homer."
Following Miller's second blown save of the season, the left-hander pinned the bases loaded in the ninth and navigated around an Edwin Encarnacion homer in the 10th to bring the Yankees within 2 1/2 games of Toronto in the American League East.