Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Mariano "The Great" Rivera Nets 600th Career Save!

Prick Cabin would like to briefly congratulate the great Mariano Rivera on reaching 600 Career Saves in his brilliant career. A job well done, Mo! Zimas and O'Doul's are on the house all day long at the Cabin Saloon! Come drill some suds, pound some puss, and construct dioramas with Uncle PMAC, as we toast to the greatest Closer in the history of Major League Baseball!!!

• He has 10 seasons with an ERA lower than 2.00 with at least 60 innings. Only one other pitcher in history has more than six: Walter Johnson, with 11.
• He never has given up a postseason home run to a lefthanded hitter (and only two in all among 523 batters).
• In his past 253 innings his ERA is 1.74 -- that's from ages 38 through 41.
• He has 31 postseason saves of four outs or more; next on that list is Rich Gossage with seven.
• In the regular season since he became a closer in 1997, Rivera has 113 saves in which he obtained four outs or more; the next closest to him in that time, Keith Foulke, has fewer than half as many, 55.