Mariano Rivera Highlights

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2001 wasn't "The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty" after all. Mo enters in the 8th, score 2-1. Final 4-1 Yankees over Twins. ALDS game 3.
top photo Star-Ledger, next reuters.

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Jeff Passan: "While Games 1 and 2 were won by nearly $250 million in mercenary arms – CC Sabathia(notes) and A.J. Burnett’s(notes) – Pettitte carved up the Twins in Game 3. And Posada hit the go-ahead home run in the seventh inning. And Jeter made a brilliant defensive play the next inning, catching Twins runner Nick Punto(notes) taking too wide a turn around third base, relaying the ball to Posada and watching him gun down Punto at third.

• And Rivera finished off the eighth inning and pitched the ninth, the

• 53rd time in the postseason he’s gone

• more than three outs.

Only one other pitcher has thrown in that many postseason games, period.

• Such is the legacy of the survivors. Pettitte’s victory tied him for first all-time with 15 playoff wins." ...

Pettitte, Posada, Jeter, and Rivera... "have spent parts of 57 seasons with the Yankees, only Pettitte’s three-year vacation with Houston interrupting 15 unabated years. Each debuted in 1995, and never before or since has a team seen such greatness in a single wave: two no-doubt Hall of Famers and two borderline, as much for their team accomplishments as individual....

• After all these years, the four survivors are still alive and kicking – and hitting and pitching. Now, finally, they’ve got a worthy fifth wheel (Alex Rodriguez) along for the ride."

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"Familiar Faces push Yankees to the ALCS," 10/12/09, Passan, Yahoo.
Pettitte photo by ap. Reference to Dynasty by Ryan Fagan in his article on SportingNews.com, 10/11/09, "Like Old Times: Yanks Old Guard Pivotal in Win"

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Update: Rivera post season multi-inning apps. now stand at 57 out of 96 appearances:

Jeff Passan noted the 53 mark after ALDS game 3 in 2009.

• Outings 54 through 57 were as follows: 2.1, 2.0, 2.0, 1.2.

All in 2009: ALCS game 2, ALCS game 6, World Series game 2, World Series game 6.

Labels: Mariano Rivera's 53rd multi inning post season appearance 10/11/09