MLB Advanced Media advances their view via the bully pulpit, but Red Sox' Joe Castiglione knows the truth.
Listening to Angels-Red Sox play by play on XM Friday night, I got the Red Sox guys' view of the Yankee-Indian game. The score was tied at 1-1:
- Joe Castiglione: "Is Rivera coming back?" (asking his booth-mates what was happening in the bottom of the 11 th inning).
- Castigione: Not immediately having that answer, he suggests, "How many pitches has Rivera thrown?"
- Castiglione: "Is Rivera coming out?"
- Castiglione: "Rivera's out." OK.
- THAT'S WHY YOU HEARD CASTIGLIONE REPEATEDLY TRY TO FIND OUT IF RIVERA WAS COMING IN FOR A 3rd CONSECUTIVE INNING IN GAME 2 OF THE ALDS GAME YANKS-INDIANS. Joe knows Rivera and his manager don't wait around for "saves" or "save opportunities," a distortion of Rivera's value still put forth by MLB.com which provides content for all MLB websites.
- So Mr. DiComo, perhaps the same who wrote for a BU student paper in 2004, now writes for the multi-billion dollar behemoth, MLB Advanced Media. Even after knowing what Rivera did in Friday night's ALDS game v the Indians (2 consecutive scoreless innings in a tie game in A NON-SAVE SITUATION) he's permitted to leave the world with the following characterization of Mariano in the 2001 ALDS when the Yanks were also down 0-2:
- Of all the things he could say about Rivera, that's the chosen one-- and he had plenty of space in which to elaborate. DiComo went on to detail the Jeter tag of Jeremy Giambi in Game 3 of the 2001 ALDS. Fine.
- Mariano Rivera pitched 3 days in a row at one point in the 2001 World Series, and only 1 of the 3 days was a "save opportunity." The other 2 games were tied. No "save opportunity,' and both were extra innings.
- He pitched the 8th and 9th on 10/30/01 for a save (final score 2-1);
- He pitched the 10th on 10/31 in a TIE game which the Yankees won in 10, score 4-3;
- and He pitched a third day in a row on 11/1/01 for 2 innings, the 10th and 11th in a TIE game, which the Yankees won in 12 score 3-2. (Baseball-Reference).
Labels: Cheap Saves, Goose Gossage, Greatest Reliever in History, Mariano Rivera stats, MLB.com bias, Total Saves Stat
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