Is this really the story behind the greatness of Yankees closer Mariano ... Rivera allows them to do so — an element he can control by the amount of pressure he imparts with his fingers when he ...

Mariano Rivera was ... Eleven years after Rivera’s retirement, a wrist brace with claws could strip any last intimation of divinity out of pitching. A pitcher’s fingers slide into its four ...

Before the seventh game of the 2003 American League Championship Series with the Boston Red Sox, Mariano Rivera ... that though he grips the cutter the same way Rivera does, “it does a lot ...

Your browser does not support iframes. There were some truly special scenes at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night as Mariano Rivera made his final career pitching ...

TORONTO — Seeing Mariano Rivera’s right ... “I put heat on it every day,’’ Rivera said at his locker when asked if pregame heat was normal. Pitching coach Larry Rothschild and manager ...

Mariano Rivera has been pitching in the postseason since 1997. The Apollo Program launched in 1963 and concluded in 1972. In other words, Rivera has been clutch in the postseason for six years ...

(AP) Mariano Rivera remembers his ... because it meant he couldn't play every day. Rivera says something has to be done about all the youth pitching injuries. He says young pitchers need to ...