Photo: Mariano Rivera Did What?

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April 20, 2011

For only the 68th time in his illustrious career, and only the ninth time since 2008, Mariano Rivera, 41, blew a save.

Alex Rodriguez, like the rest of the baseball world, can’t believe it. A-Rod’s nothing short of flummoxed.

Getty Image, yo, via daylife.





 

Navin Vaswani is a replacement-level writer. Follow him on Twitter.

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Anthony
13 years ago

Frustrating game, frustrating loss. Mo is human though and it’s nice to remember that at least. Looking forward to Colon’s first start though!

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Navin Vaswani
13 years ago
Reply to  Anthony

I’m still not convinced Rivera is human. Dude’s been dealing for years on one pitch. ONE PITCH! Mo’s amazing, and a treat to watch when he comes into town. And he’s definitely not human.

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SF Draft Talk
13 years ago
Reply to  Navin Vaswani

I’m pretty sure Rivera developed a two seamer to go along with his cutter a few years ago.

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NMq
13 years ago
Reply to  SF Draft Talk

Yeah, you can find a 2-seamer in his pitchFX data going back to 2007. He just doesn’t throw it that often (it says he did in 2007/2008, but that’s more of pitchFX error, as they mislabel a lot of cutters as 2-seamers).

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Navin Vaswani
13 years ago
Reply to  NMq

I prefer the SO CUTTERED narrative.

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tommydowork
13 years ago
Reply to  Anthony

“Looking forward to Colon’s first start though!”

There’s a sentence you probably won’t ever hear me say.

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