When 29 other closers blow a save, we file it under Stuff Happens.
When Mariano Rivera blows a save, it's An Event. Still. All these years and
all these saves later.
So what happened at Citi Field on Tuesday, when the Greatest Closer Who Ever
Lived blew a save in which he faced three hitters and retired none of them?
Let's get to the bottom of this:
MO星期二在Citi Field的那次BS，他可是一個打者都沒有解決。
那這底下有甚麼有趣的東西嗎? 讓我們來瞧瞧。
‧ The Elias Sports Bureau tells us this was the first time in Rivera's
career he'd ever blown a save without retiring a hitter. Think about that. It
took him only 700 save opportunities! You can make that 747 if you count the
postseason, because it never happened there, either.
Elias Sports Bureau告訴我們，這是MO生涯第一次在沒解決任何打者的狀況下BS。
再想一下，他生涯只有700次拿Save的機會，喔如果你加上季後賽，那是747次。
不過這都無所謂，因為他從來沒有一個打者都沒解決就BS。
‧ Just to put that in perspective, another Yankees closer from a different
era, Sparky Lyle, rolled up 12 blown saves in which he forgot to get an out.
Twelve. (And I didn't even count the two years he pitched before the
invention of the modern save rule.) And Jesse Orosco had 11 blown saves in
his career in which he didn't retire a hitter. But Mariano Rivera? He had
zero