{"id":135318,"date":"2025-08-10T21:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135318\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T21:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:30:20","slug":"mariano-rivera-tears-achilles-in-yankees-old-timers-day-game-needs-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135318\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariano Rivera Tears Achilles in Yankees&#8217; Old-Timers&#8217; Day Game, Needs Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera tore an Achilles tendon while going after a fly ball at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-yankees-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a>&#8216; annual Old-Timers&#8217; Day game on Saturday and needs surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Agent Fern Cuza said the 55-year-old closer, baseball&#8217;s career leader in saves, will have the operation within a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">In his lone at-bat, Rivera singled off former teammate Andy Pettitte and easily ran to first base. During an at-bat by Willie Randolph, Rivera took a step and fell to the ground in shallow center field behind second base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">The Yankees restored the Old-Timers&#8217; Day game for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">&#8220;It was a fun day until we heard about Mariano,&#8221; seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens told WFAN. &#8220;Mariano hurt his Achilles. I don\u2019t know what was going on. We all thought it was a hamstring, but I think it\u2019s a little worse than that. I think he\u2019s at the hospital now. Unbelievable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Rivera tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in May 2012 while shagging fly balls in batting practice in Kansas City. He returned for his final season in 2013 and finished as baseball\u2019s career saves leader with 652 and posted 42 postseason saves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">In 2019, the 13-time All-Star became the first player unanimously inducted into the Hall of Fame by getting all 425 votes in balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers\u2019 Association of America. He helped the Yankees win five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/world-series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Series<\/a> titles and seven American League pennants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Rivera was playing in the Old-Timers&#8217; Game for the second time. He hit an inside-the-park homer in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">The event commemorated the 25th anniversary of the 2000 championship team, the last team to win three straight World Series titles. Clemens was a first-time attendee at the event, which had captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/personalities\/derek-jeter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derek Jeter<\/a> give a short video message when he was introduced following Rivera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Before the event, Rivera said he intended to speak with struggling reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/devin-williams-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p> FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience      <\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MLB.vresize.160.160.medium.0.png\" alt=\"Major League Baseball\" class=\"team-logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"\/> Get more from the Major League Baseball Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera tore an Achilles tendon while going after a fly ball at the New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-135318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115006604909277056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}