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Closers In Tie Games
New York Yankees — ... After Mariano Rivera allowed his second tie breaking home run in a week, Peter Abraham wrote a post about the nature of closers in non save situations. Specifically, he said that closers are such creatures of habit that they will falter in non save situations, being that such appearances are dissimilar from their typical workload. At first I thought that this might be a fluke that one bad week seemed to highlight. Looking at it objectively, you would think that tie games are just as important, if not more so, than save situations, being that one run is likely to lead directly to ...