("Who finished the final game in which Mariano Rivera pitched ... when he incorporated the cutter and began to be used like a conventional closer. The same pitch mix. The same excellence at avoiding ...

If the Yankees fail to make the playoffs, Mariano Rivera’s final day in a major ... It was the birth of his cutter, the pitch with which he would dominate baseball for the next decade and ...

the lethal and nasty pitch of Dominican Emmanuel Clase, combined with the mastery and precision of the legendary Hall of Famer from Panama, Mariano Rivera. A cutter that jams you up and another ...

NEW YORK - Mariano Rivera set the major league record with his 602nd career save, pitching a perfect ninth ... it appeared to be Rivera's signature cutter — as Yankee Stadium roared in approval.

A few years ago, I wrote something about Mariano Rivera and ... And then he would throw one pitch. He only had one pitch. People would call the pitch a cutter because of the way it cut sideways, ...

For example, Mariano Rivera’s famed cutter had horizontal seam orientation. Other pitchers used a more vertical seam orientation similar to a two-seam fastball. The ambiguity of this pitch ...

Mariano Rivera (notes) throws a cut fastball that at its 55th foot takes ... the fear of splinters evermore palpable following a meeting with a cutter. The bat goes one of three places: in the ...