Legendary New York Yankees nearer Mariano Rivera suffered an Achilles’ harm in the course of the membership’s 77th Previous-Timers’ Day sport on Saturday, a group spokesperson confirmed to the New York Daily News. Rivera met with group trainers, however the severity of the harm will not be recognized at the moment.
Rivera’s former teammate, Roger Clemens, initially broke the information of Rivera’s harm throughout an look on WFAN radio.
It is unclear when Rivera suffered the harm, however at one level in the course of the exhibition, he hit a single off Andy Pettitte:
Rivera, 55, spent his complete 19-year MLB profession with the Yankees, who first signed him out of Panama to a $2,000 bonus in 1990. Over his 19 seasons with the Yankees, Rivera used his signature cutter to place up an ERA of two.21, file a file 652 saves, earn 13 All-Star picks, and set up himself as the best nearer within the historical past of the sport. Burnishing Rivera’s popularity is that he was even higher throughout 96 profession postseason appearances. He stays the one participant to be unanimously elected to the Baseball Corridor of Fame.
Saturday’s occasion at Yankee Stadium commemorated the Yankees’ 2000 World Sequence championship and featured many necessary figures from that title group, corresponding to Rivera, Clemens, and supervisor Joe Torre:
Saturday marked the primary Yankees Previous-Timers’ sport since 2019. The exhibition occurred earlier than the Yankees’ eventual 5-4 win over the Houston Astros.