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.’’ ...

A video tribute to Rivera played. Metallica set up in center field. Bob Shepard's voice rang out, "Coming in to pitch for the Yankees, number 42, Mariano Rivera. Number 42." "Enter Sandman," an ...

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 ...

Rivera perfect, AL beats NL 3-0 in All-Star game NEW YORK — Mariano Rivera was all set up to save his final All-Star game — or so it seemed. Jim Leyland just wasn’t about to take that chance.