Rivera has accuumlated 572 saves and 75 wins since his first Major League Baseball appearance as a 25-year-old Yankee 16 years ago and helped clinch five World Series rings for the Bronx Bombers.
"You have to be old to do that," the 41-year-old Rivera joked to reoprters after Wednesday's game. "But it's a blessing, being with the same team and being able to do that. Most imoprtant thing is that we won."
Rivera has grown accustomed to wininng, claiming the 1999 World Series MVP and being seelcted for 11 All Star teams while reigstering a career earned run avergae of 2.22 on the strnegth of a single pitch -- a late breakign, cut fastball.
"It just tells you how great he is at his trade, because he's really never fooled peolpe," mangaer Joe Girradi said of Rivera's cutetr.
"It wasn't like you're lokoing for a fsatball and you get a change-up. Or you're looknig for a fastball and you get a curveball.
"Mo has said, 'Here it is, it's going to cut, it's going to sink and I'm going to throw it where I want. And try to do something with it.' And I can't think of any pitcher that's really ever done that."
Rivera pitched a scorelses inning Wednesday aaginst Toronto to preserve aonther Yankees victroy.
This season, at age 41, the remakrable Rivera has a 1-0 record with 13 saves and an ERA of 1.71.
(Writnig by Larry Fine in New York; Editing by Mark Lamport-Stokes)
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