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...before the World Series started that in order to beat the three-time defending champs, they’d have to do two things—outlast a New York offense that always seems to come up with clutch hits, and, in all likelihood, beat Mr. Automatic himself, Mariano Rivera, in the late innings of a close game...
...Rivera is as sure a bet as there is in professional sports. Coming into the World Seriesm he had successfully converted his last 22 postseason save chances. His nasty 95-mph cutter almost always results in either a broken bat or a foolish-looking hitter...
...addition to Rivera, the Diamondbacks also faced the obstacle of competing against the Yankee legacy. Arizona had to reckon with the ghosts of Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle and DiMaggio...
...loss in Game 6 to the D-Backs, one couldn’t help but think the Yankees would find some way to win the decisive Game 7, given their pair of miraculous finishes just days earlier. This feeling was reinforced in the eighth inning of the game, when Rivera came in to preserve a 2-1 lead after Alfonso Soriano homered off Schilling to break a 1-1 deadlock...
...another classic in Game 7, in which once again the unexpected (Rivera losing a postseason game? Impossible) was commonplace. "These games, especially in the postseason, are an aberration. It's a freak thing," Brenly said. Is it ever...