Is this really the story behind the greatness of Yankees closer Mariano ... Rivera allows them to do so — an element he can control by the amount of pressure he imparts with his fingers when he ...

Mariano Rivera was never secretive about the grip on his signature pitch ... claws could strip any last intimation of divinity out of pitching. A pitcher’s fingers slide into its four rubber ...

Still svelte, as if at 49 years old he still could be counted on in the ninth inning, Yankees legend and retired closer Mariano Rivera ... about pitching. I was teaching him the grip for the ...

Before the seventh game of the 2003 American League Championship Series with the Boston Red Sox, Mariano Rivera ... that though he grips the cutter the same way Rivera does, “it does a lot ...

Mariano Rivera explained the grip of his famous cutter with Roy Halladay ... I needed his perspective for a book I was writing on pitching — “K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches ...

When [Mariano Rivera] arrived ... he sat down with the Yankees pitching coach and watched film of his recent outings. After showing Rivera that his grip unintentionally had slid toward the side ...