{"id":3067,"date":"2011-09-07T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:57:18","slug":"mariano-rivera-and-oh-that-cut-fastball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3067","title":{"rendered":"Mariano Rivera and, oh, that cut fastball!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201543534d4db970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br>last July I posted this &#8211; with a wonderful short video &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2010\/07\/mariano-rivera-how-he-does-it.html\" target=\"_self\">Great article &#8211; Mariano Rivera: How he does it<\/a>&nbsp;about Yankee closer Mariano Rivera and his cutter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e201543534d4db970c-300wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12062\" title=\"Mariano_Rivera_allison_7_29_07\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now here&#8217;s another fine article, as&nbsp;Mariano carries on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.yankees.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20110904&amp;content_id=24199712&amp;vkey=news_nyy&amp;c_id=nyy\" target=\"_self\">&#8220;Ever since that day, I said this guy was going to be pretty good in the big leagues,&#8221; Posada said. &#8220;There was something extra on that fastball that nobody else had, the life coming out of his hand, his makeup. Everything that he&#8217;s been doing here, we saw it down there.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;last July I posted this &#8211; with a wonderful short video &#8211; Great article &#8211; Mariano Rivera: How he does it&nbsp;about Yankee closer Mariano Rivera and his cutter. Now here&#8217;s another fine article, as&nbsp;Mariano carries on! &#8220;Ever since that day, I said this guy was going to be pretty good in the big leagues,&#8221; Posada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12063,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions\/12063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}