Is this really the story behind the greatness of Yankees closer Mariano Rivera ... results derived from that particular pitch. This year, Rivera’s cutter has saved him 11.5 runs.

20, 2013. A pitch isn't legitimately unhittable unless it has staying power. Opposing batters can adjust to most offerings after seeing them for several seasons. Mariano Rivera's cutter and the ...

Throughout it all, Rivera essentially threw just one pitch: The cutter. In its heyday, it was a mid-90s offering that broke so sharply and suddenly away from righty hitters and towards the hands ...

Making Papelbon's fastball even more deadly is the effectiveness ... Batters know it is coming, but they still can't hit Mariano Rivera's cutter. Rivera will very soon be the all-time save leader ...

When he earned his first major-league victory in Oakland on May 28, 1995, Mariano Rivera ... the legend is well established, that Rivera's lethal cutter suddenly appeared one day in 1997.

Rivera’s cutter is so nasty that some left-handers ... “It becomes a risk-reward scenario. Mariano’s pitch moves a foot. With other guys, it doesn’t move. That makes it really easy to ...

David Robertson has taken over as Yankees closer after an apprenticeship under Mariano Rivera, who turned the cutter – or cut fastball – into an unprecedented art form. Part of that tutelage ...

Mariano Rivera threw out the first pitch of the season for the Yankees ... opening pitch were that it wasn't one of his patented cutters and "Enter Sandman" didn't ring throughout Yankee Stadium ...

Mariano Rivera threw out the first pitch before Saturday night's exhibition ... "I've got to mix in my changeup and cutter. It's going pretty good." Eduardo Nuñez reported no problems after ...