For Mariano ... Rivera and fellow closer Lee Smith, starters Mike Mussina and Roy Halladay, and designated hitters Edgar Martinez and Harold Baines were celebrated on a sun-splashed afternoon. A ...

NEW YORK (WFAN/AP) — Now that save No. 602 is behind him, Mariano Rivera is happy to step back out of the spotlight and work on another big number ... when the smallest crowd in the three ...

Mariano Rivera. Number 42." "Enter Sandman," an unfamiliar live version, began. Rivera slowly walked in from the bullpen in right-center field. The once-boisterous crowd flagged, taking it in like ...

BOSTON -- A baseball cap tucked tight can strip years off a man's face, almost make a boy out of him, and so it is no surprise Mariano ... of baseball's big Biogenesis bust, Rivera's drug of ...

Mariano Rivera’s final appearance ... The Rays came out of their dugout to give Rivera their own standing ovation, matching the one from the crowd. He retired Delmon Young on a fly ball and ...

New York – Mariano Rivera found the ... loss to Tampa Bay on Thursday night. Rivera bawled during four minutes of a thunderous ovation from the sellout crowd 48,675. "It's time to go," Jeter ...

Mariano Rivera grew up in Puerto Camito, Panama, and he happily will admit that he did not grow up with big dreams ... and he begins to warm up, and the crowd's going wild, and the opposing ...

Before the seventh game of the 2003 American League Championship Series with the Boston Red Sox, Mariano ... that Rivera, like the ageless power pitcher Nolan Ryan, “throws with the big muscles ...