{"id":3631,"date":"2009-07-01T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:27:32","slug":"mariano-rivera-500-saves-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3631","title":{"rendered":"Mariano Rivera &#8211; 500 saves and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice article in yesterday&#39;s <strong>NY Times<\/strong>.&#0160;Rivera is so fluid and makes everything look sooo easy when he comes in for the save. He&#39;s wonderful to watch (unless you&#39;re rooting for the other team). And that cut fastball. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20115709dc066970c-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mariano rivera\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20115709dc066970c \" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20115709dc066970c-320wi\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Besides getting his 500th save, he also got his first career RBI when the Mets closer walked him with the bases loaded Sunday night. <\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if we\u2019ll ever see another Mariano Rivera,\u201d Girardi said. \u201cI really don\u2019t believe we will.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/30\/sports\/baseball\/30rivera.html?th&amp;emc=th\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Since 1996, Yankees\u2019 Rivera Has Made It Look as Easy as 1-2-3 &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and here&#39;s his very fascinating Wikipedia entry. the Yanks signed Rivera out of Panama (where he had worked on a fishing boat) for $3,000. (Buy that scout a <strike>beer<\/strike> yacht.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mariano_Rivera\"><font color=\"#800080\">Mariano Rivera &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice article in yesterday&#39;s NY Times.&#0160;Rivera is so fluid and makes everything look sooo easy when he comes in for the save. He&#39;s wonderful to watch (unless you&#39;re rooting for the other team). And that cut fastball. Besides getting his 500th save, he also got his first career RBI when the Mets closer walked him [&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-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","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=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9120,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions\/9120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}