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 ...

Former New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera didn't invent the cut fastball — he merely turned it into an art form and a likely place in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The cutter has become the ...

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.

Mariano Rivera: No ... CBS: In '96 you had that great season, but you weren't throwing the cutter. Rivera: No, it was the fastball in '96, four seams. The same grip, and it was doing what ...

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 ...

He threw a pitch that was supposed to zig left, like cutters are supposed to zig ... But the 2016 winner of the Mariano Rivera Award gladly sought him out for advice anyway.