{"id":3612,"date":"2009-07-23T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:10:11","slug":"another-nice-feature-on-yankee-closer-mariano-rivera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3612","title":{"rendered":"Another nice feature on Yankee closer, Mariano Rivera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Washington Post. Headline is a play on words, of course.&#0160;Rivera&#39;s cut fastball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/20\/AR2009072002902.html\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>With Signature Pitch, Rivera Stays a Cut Above &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Rivera altered his career by chance, accidentally developing a cutter during a game of catch. While throwing with teammate Ramiro Mendoza, Rivera said he first threw the cutter that would make him famous. It had velocity and violent movement. Unbeknownst to Rivera, a legend was born. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rivera throws the cutter, the two seam fastball, and the four seam fastball (It was only this year that I found out the difference between a two seamer and a four seamer &#8211; thanks to Tim&#39;s participation in a Pace College pitching clinic).<\/p>\n<p>No slider, no curve ball, no change up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Washington Post. Headline is a play on words, of course.&#0160;Rivera&#39;s cut fastball. With Signature Pitch, Rivera Stays a Cut Above &#8211; washingtonpost.com Rivera altered his career by chance, accidentally developing a cutter during a game of catch. While throwing with teammate Ramiro Mendoza, Rivera said he first threw the cutter that would make [&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-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","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=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5518,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/5518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}