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 ...

If Mariano Rivera's retirement announcement Saturday was the worst-kept secret in baseball over the last couple of weeks, this fact was even wider known. Mo did more with one pitch than most ...

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.’’ ...

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 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 ...

That afternoon, when the Yankees entered the top of the ninth inning with a 1-0 lead, manager Joe Torre called on Mariano ... what Rivera would become. Yes, he had been a sensational set-up ...

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 ...

Mariano Rivera is mobbed by Yankees teammates after ... 2000 and 2009 — plus he set up John Wetteland in 1996. This one stands out among the pack because of the series, the opponent and the ...

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.