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04/10: Rivera Saves Pettitte Gem as Yankees Spoil Royals Home Opener
Posted by: David
Mariano Rivera earned his first save of the season on Friday afternoon in Kansas City. Andy Pettitte pitched the first seven innings and surrendered only three hits and one run. Brian Bruney pitched a scoreless eighth and then turned over the reigns to Mo.
Mike Aviles led off and Mo caught him looking for the first out. David DeJesus grounded to Teixeira at first for the second out and the Royals last hope was Mark Teahen. Mo jammed Teahen and he grounded the ball slowly to second. Cano charged and bare handed the ball, but then threw wildly. The play was scored as a hit for Teahen. Alex Gordon then struck out swinging to end the game. For the brief season Rivera is 0-0 with 1 save and his ERA remains at 0.00. Mariano now has 483 career saves and is only 17 short of the magical 500 mark for his career. CommentsPatrick wrote:
Interesting question, etluva. I'm not sure. Do you have a link to the article that said that Pettitte and Mo had done it 55 times?
Thanks, Patrick
04/11 09:15:30
Moises Young Diaz wrote:
You are right,EtLuva; 56th of Mo's 483 Saves have come in Andy P. wins.
Pitching is the difference, Andy, Bruney and Mariano, pitched a beautiful game. Mariano looks very impressive as usual; keep it up, Mo. No doubts, that Mariano will have 45+ Saves during the season if the Yankees give him the opportunity. Arriba Mariano.
04/11 09:26:00
franklin Gomez wrote:
We are happy MO save the first one of many games he will save for the bombers this year......
And I was asking to myself yesterday the same question as you about MO and Pettite???? So when you get the answer Petrick... let us know....
04/11 11:46:19
etluva wrote:
According to Andy's MLB.com Biography(http://www.mlb.com/team/pla...)
"2008 Career Highlights:...According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Mariano Rivera has recorded 55 saves in games in which Pettitte has been the winning pitcher, marking the second-highest total for any pair of pitchers since the inception of "saves" in 1969 behind Oakland's Dennis Eckersley for Bob Welch (57)..." But I've seen some articles stated that "The only starter-closer combination that has teamed up for more victories is Bob Welch and Dennis Eckersley (55)." (http://www.nydailynews.com/...) That really confused me.
04/15 01:33:14
Patrick wrote:
Thanks for the reply and links, etluva. That is confusing. I'd go with the MLB.com bio in this case. That would mean that Pettitte and Mo are one short of the record. Something to keep an eye on tonight! :)
04/15 09:28:17
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etluva wrote: