before transitioning from lethal set-up reliever on the 1996 champion Yankees team to full-time closer starting in 1997. Mariano Rivera helps the Yankees to five World Series titles, including ...

Mariano Rivera didn't close ... For the month leading up to that game, Steve Karsay had been New York's closer while Rivera nursed a sore shoulder on the disabled list, his third time on the ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The great Mariano Rivera is getting set to close his career ... It's not that somebody may not be special up there. His career is one thing, but when you look at ...

Mariano Rivera is set to make his first appearance ... “It was ‘game over.’ I’d set up my glove and he’d hit it every time. I haven’t seen anything else like it.’’ ...

THE BLOOD clot that delayed Mariano Rivera‘s surgery is gone, and the closer is expected to go under the knife Tuesday, more than a month after he tore his ACL. The surgery will be performed in ...

NEW YORK - Mariano Rivera set the major league record with his 602nd ... Plate umpire John Hirschbeck rung him up, and catcher Russell Martin came out to the mound, gently placed the ball in ...

With newcomers Mariano Rivera and Roy Halladay headlining the ballot — and Edgar Martinez up against a deadline — next year's induction class could be another sizable one. That would certainly ...

The score was 2-1 going into the bottom of the eighth inning. Mariano Rivera served as the set-up man for John Wettleland in 1996 and 1997 marked his first year as the closer. With two outs ...

In his final All-Star Game, the baseball gods' best-laid plans are orchestrated for Mariano Rivera of the Yankees in one of the most memorable moments in the game's history.