The Demise of Mariano Rivera?
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/8/2009 — Buster Olney mentioned in his blog yesterday that the great Mariano Rivera has lost some velocity on his cutter and it is not moving as much. According to Olney, that makes Rivera more vulnerable this year than in the past. Olney also points out that the pitcher is now 39 and this is to be ...

Mariano Rivera 500 Saves (Photos and Video)
sports.rightpundits.com 6/29/2009 — Mariano Rivera 500 saves put the closer in the books last night, as he became only the second player in history, behind Trevor Hoffman, to achieve the feat. Read more about the story plus see video of Mariano Rivera 500 saves and photos ...

Mariano Rivera and the Tale of the Wandering Remote Control
heartbeatofthebronx.blogspot.com 7/2/2009 — Yankees closer Mariano Rivera has been deservedly credited with being the greatest relief pitcher of his generation. On Tuesday night, I believe he also became the first pitcher to ever throw out the ceremonial first pitch and throw the final pitch of a game. The honor of course stemmed from ...

Mariano Rivera’s Curious Rates
fangraphs.com 6/17/2009 — With the activation today of Brian Bruney from the disabled list and the designation of Jose Veras , I thought it a particularly good time to check in the end of the line of the Yankee’s bullpen, Mariano Rivera . The first year into his ...

Yankees P Rivera Gets 500th Career Save
mkrob.com 6/29/2009 — Mariano Rivera has 500 saves—and one precious RBI. Guess which feat he was most excited about. On a New York night that belonged to baseball’s most unflappable closer, Rivera became the second reliever to reach the 500-save milestone when the Yankees held off the punchless Mets 4-2 ...

When will Mariano Rivera retire?
lennysyankees.com 6/29/2009 — In ESPN’s Sunday Conversation, Bob Holtzman interviewed the great Mariano Rivera . When asked about retirement, Rivera replied that he will quit when he is no longer effective and/or not competitive. When do you think that will be? Rivera turns 40 years old after this season, and is signed ...

Revisiting an almost-trade of Mariano Rivera
riveraveblues.com 7/1/2009 — I can’t imagine the New York Yankees without Mariano Rivera for the last 15 seasons. Since he came up as a 25-year-old and wowed the crowd during the 1995 ALCS, he has always been there. In 1996, he helped shorten the games, and in 1997, he ...

Two Very Different Cutters
fangraphs.com 7/2/2009 — On the surface Mariano Rivera and Mark DiFelice should be two of the most similar pitchers in the game. They are both right-handed relief pitchers who throw a cutters almost exclusively, over 90% of the time. No other pitcher throws the cutter that ...

Mariano Rivera at #500
thepaintedbaseball.blogspot.com 6/29/2009 — M ARIANO RIVERA NAILED DOWN HIS 500th save, but it just didn't seem as big a deal as, say, Randy Johnson's 300th victory. These milestone saves for Rivera don't mean much because most fans believe that he is the greatest closer the game has ever seen with sincere apologies to Trevor Hoffman, ...

Rivera: “I Go Home, Simple as That”
nybaseballdigest.com 6/29/2009 — Ian O’ Connor goes down memory lane in his morning column. It’s old hat, but worth repeating, how close the Yankees were to trading Mariano Rivera to Seattle for Felix Fermin. What do you think life without Rivera would mean? Probably no titles in 96 and 98-2000. You also got ...

GAME OF THE DAY YANKEES 4, METS 2 — SFGate: Top Sports Stories 6/29/2009
Mariano Rivera earned his 500th save, becoming the second reliever to reach the milestone, and the New York Yankees beat the punchless Mets 4-2 on Sunday night for a Subway Series sweep. Chien-Ming Wang won for the first time in more than a year and ...

Milestone Man: Rivera earns 500th save for Yankees — Boston.com -- Baseball News 6/29/2009
Mariano Rivera's 500th save included a surprising bonus: his first RBI. On a New York night that belonged to baseball's most unflappable closer, Rivera became the second reliever to reach the milestone when the Yankees held off the punchless Mets 4-2 ...

Milestone Man: Rivera earns 500th save for Yankees — The Seattle Times: Sports 6/29/2009
Mariano Rivera's 500th save included a surprising bonus: his first RBI.

Victory sinks in for Chien-Ming — NYDailyNews.com - Baseball 6/29/2009
Mariano Rivera's 500th save may have grabbed the headlines Sunday night, but there was another number that could have been even more important to the Yankees: One. As in Chien-Ming Wang's first victory of the season.

ROUGH, WILD NIGHT FOR FRANCISCO — NY Post: Sports 6/29/2009
> On a night when the Yankees closer achieved another career milestone, the Mets closer suffered a career embarrassment. Francisco Rodriguez, who has been nearly perfect for the Mets this year, walked Mariano Rivera with the bases loaded ...