The rule is "pitches effectively for at least three innings".
In your case allowing a run per inning, is not effective and he wasn't awarded the save.
The OOTP4 official scorer is very conservative with the 3 inning saves. But if I were scoring the game I wouldn't award a 3 inning save to someone who nearly pitched the game into a normal save situation... (3 runs in 3 innings).
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