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，他可是一个打者都没有解决。
那这底下有什么有趣的东西吗? 让我们来瞧瞧。
‧ 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告诉我们，这是MO生涯第一次在没解决任何打者的状况下BS。
再想一下，他生涯只有700次拿Save的机会，喔如果你加上季后赛，那是747次。
不过这都无所谓，因为他从来没有一个打者都没解决就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