Blown Saves Story of Post Season So Far
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 10/13/2009 — You can talk about A-Rod suddenly becoming Mr. October or Sabathia earning his money or Vladamir Guerrero hitting that single or the Dodgers sweeping the Cardinals. The story of the post season at the end of the division series rounds is the blown saves. We had Joe Nathan serving up a two run ...

Closer Implosions
fackyouk.blogspot.com 10/14/2009 — Good morning, Fackers. We began yesterday talking about Huston Street's blown save and how it fit into a trend of closers not being able to lock it down so far this postseason. Aside from the aforementioned meltdowns by Jonathan Papelbon, Joe Nathan and Ryan Franklin, other shutdown late inning ...

Mariano Rivera: Another Appreciation
baseballanalysts.com 10/2/2009 — For my last post of the regular season I wanted to examine one of the most singular and interesting players in major league baseball, Marino Rivera . I know I have written about him before but the amazing Sports Illustrated cover of him inspired me to look deeper into his pitchf/x numbers.  ...

Mariano claims his third Delivery Man of the Year Award
zellspinstripeblog.com 10/15/2009 — Mariano Rivera won this annual award during the 2005 and 2006 seasons. With the fantastic campaign he put together this season, he can proudly say that he has won the DHL Delivery Man of the Year Award three times . Rivera saved 44 games in 46 opportunities, along with a 1.76ERA and ...

It's Not Easy Being a Baseball Player
noyoureatowel.net 10/20/2009 — Raul Ibanez started off this year hot and the media wondered if he was on steroids. Everyone looks for dirt on Albert Pujols who has to continually defend his name. So it was only natural that people would take a chance to try to soil Mariano Rivera's good name. The culprit was a Los Angeles ...

Posada should be pissed at Rivera for making him catch a phlegm-ball and having to grab it with his hand to throw it back!
athbloggs.blogspot.com 10/21/2009 — Ok, so what we have here is an old fashion spiiting incident. Actually, this one is kinda similar to the Seinfield episode where Roger McDowell of the Mets was hiding "in bushed by the gravely road" and spit on Kramer and Neuman. The Major League Baseball Commissioners Office reviewed ...

Professor Rivera talks, Yanks listen
northjersey.com 10/6/2009 — NEW YORK — As he headed toward the field on a late summer afternoon, prior to a game, Mariano Rivera walked alongside Mike Dunn. A rookie left-hander, Dunn was holding a baseball in a cut fastball grip, and Rivera appeared to be wrapping up a quick ...

‘One pitch’ lands Mo on the cover of SI
riveraveblues.com 9/30/2009 — As part of a Tom Verducci package on Mariano Rivera and his Cutter of Doom, Number 42 finds himself atop Sports Illustrated this week. Here’s what the press release from the sports weekly had to say: This week’s October 5, 2009, issue of ...

Rivera ready to do whatever it takes
nydailynews.com 10/19/2009 — Mariano Rivera hadn’t pitched more than two innings in a postseason game since Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS, when he tossed three brilliant innings to help lead the Yankees past the Red Sox in the Aaron Boone Game. Rivera got seven outs on ...

MLB: No evidence Rivera threw spitter
nypost.com 10/20/2009 — 12:59 PM, October 20, 2009 By JOEL SHERMAN and GEORGE A. KING III The Major League Baseball Commissioners Office reviewed available video and still photography from Mariano Rivera spitting toward a baseball in ALCS Game 3 and found no evidence that ...

Street at a loss after blown save ends Rockies' run — USATODAY.com MLB - Top Stories 10/13/2009
Colorado Rockies closer Huston Street spent the first five minutes after the team's division series-ending loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday sitting in the chair at his locker.

Phils rally in ninth, KO Rockies — NY Post: Sports 10/13/2009
DENVER -- The collapsing closers club got another member last night when the Rockies' Huston Street blew the save in Game 4 of their NLDS with the Phillies. Street gave up three runs in the ninth to give the Phillies a dramatic 5-4 victory and a...

Case closed: relievers making their mark in playoffs — Blogging the Bombers - NY Daily News Blogs 10/13/2009
Baseball’s final four are set, as the Phillies disposed of the Rockies in a very entertaining game last night. What did the Rockies in? Their closer, of course. What else? It’s staggering to see how closers have failed in the ...

Phillies rally in ninth, KO Rockies — NY Post: Sports 10/13/2009
DENVER -- The collapsing closers club got another member last night when the Rockies' Huston Street blew the save in Game 4 of their NLDS with the Phillies. Street gave up three runs in the ninth to give the Phillies a dramatic 5-4 victory and a...

Rivera gives Yankees edge in October — NY Post: Sports 10/13/2009
MARIANO Rivera fractured another bat, and broke the Twins' heart. It was the eighth inning Sunday night. The Twins were trying to extend their season, trying desperately to stuff more baseball inside the Metrodome. The tying run was on first, two...