Not a big baseball fan, but this was pretty special:
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There was hardly a dry eye. The Yankees and Rays stood in tribute while fans blinked back tears, honouring the closer who turns 44 in November.
His voice cracking after the game, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said he conceived the idea in the eighth inning of including Jeter and Pettitte.
“I’ve never seen a player pull another player, so I had to ask. And then one of them was on the DL,” he said.
Girardi conferred with plate umpire Laz Diaz before the ninth, and Diaz consulted with crew chief Mike Winters.
“Then I said, ’Well, can I send two?’ and they said, ’Well, go ahead.’ And I really appreciate that because I think it made the moment even more special for Mo,” Girardi explained.
At first, Pettitte didn’t think it was such a good idea. When he got to the mound, he quickly decided “it was awfully cool.” The three players have known each other since they were in the minors in the early 1990s, and all three came up to the Yankees for the first time in 1995.
I get that it's a very different scenario, but I wish the Giants had handled Barry Zito's last start better. Yes, all Giants fans wish Zito's tenure had gone slightly better, but without him, they don't have the 2012 World Series ring, and maybe not the 2010 ring. He should have gotten to walk off to the applause of the crowd.
What the Yankees did here was awesome. From having Jeter and Pettite take him out (a throw back to the Joe Torre days), to making sure that he got the well deserved applause, it was excellent. The only thing that could have been better was a Yankee win. We'll miss you and your #42 Mariano.
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\the best to ever do it. I was at the game where he broke the all time saves record and it was amazing.
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the best ever, think about how many more games he has played just because of all the playoff games he played
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the best ever, think about how many more games he has played just because of all the playoff games he played
If you subtract his postseason saves he still has more than Hoffman. He is definitely the best single inning closer of all time. It is difficult to compare him to the older guys who pitched multiple innings when closing.
Mariano Rivera Farewell
