Legendary New York Yankees nearer Mariano Rivera tore certainly one of his Achilles tendons through the membership’s 77th Outdated-Timers’ Day sport on Saturday, his agent Fernando Cuza confirmed to The Athletic. Rivera will endure surgical procedure this upoming week.

Rivera’s former teammate, Roger Clemens, initially broke the information of Rivera’s harm throughout an look on WFAN radio. Rivera might have suffered the harm throughout a defensive play throughout Willie Randolph’s at-bat — he took a step in earlier than going to the bottom. In the course of the previous half inning, Rivera had hit a single off Andy Pettitte: 

Rivera, 55, spent his whole 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 status 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 essential figures from that title crew, similar to Rivera, Clemens, and supervisor Joe Torre: 

Saturday marked the primary Yankees Outdated-Timers’ sport since 2019. The exhibition befell earlier than the Yankees’ eventual 5-4 win over the Houston Astros.