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Did Mariano Rivera throw a no hitter? ›

While recovering from a sore shoulder in the minor leagues, Rivera pitched a no-hit shutout in a rain-shortened five-inning start on June 26.

Out of 732 regular-season opportunities, Rivera blew 80 saves. That means roughly nine out of every 10 times he went to the mound, he got the job done. And in the postseason, he was even better; in 96 appearances, he saved 42 games and blew just four.

Mariano Rivera played 19 seasons for the Yankees. He had 82 wins, 60 losses, 652 saves, an ERA of 2.21 and 1,173 strikeouts. He won 1 Comeback Player of the Year award, 1 League Championship MVP award, 1 World Series MVP award and 5 World Series.

Although they have not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Mariano Rivera threw 5,595 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2007 and 2013, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season, the MLB Postseason and Spring Training.

Ken Johnson pitched a no-hitter in 1964 but was the losing pitcher of the game. Unlike a perfect game, in which no batters reach base, in regular no-hitters batters can reach base in other ways, such as a walk, an error, or a hit batsman, thus it is possible for the team pitching the no-hitter to lose.

The king of all no-hitter follow-ups: a second straight no-hitter. Vander Meer is the only pitcher in MLB history to throw back-to-back no-hitters.

Mariano Rivera never won a Cy Young Award, but he finished in the top five in voting an impressive five times in his Hall of Fame career. 2004 (3rd): 74 G, 53/57 SV, 1.94 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 4.2 WAR. 2005 (2nd): 71 G, 43/47 SV, 1.38 ERA, 0.87 WHIP, 4.0 WAR. 2008 (5th): 64 G, 39/40 SV, 1.40 ERA, 0.67 WHIP, 4.3 WAR.

In postseason play, Rivera was simply untouchable. He holds the record for the most postseason saves with 42, a record that may never be broken. In 96 career playoff appearances, Rivera posted a remarkable 0.70 ERA, allowing just 11 earned runs in 141 innings pitched.

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But Rivera is also the last player in Major League Baseball wearing Jackie Robinson's No. 42, which was retired on April 15, 1997, on the 50th anniversary of Robinson's first game in the major leagues, the game in which he broke the sport's color barrier.

What records does Mariano Rivera hold? ›

In 19 seasons, Rivera posted a record 652 saves with a win-loss mark of 82-60. His career ERA of 2.21 ranks No. 1 among all pitchers who started their careers in the Live Ball Era (post 1919), and his 952 games finished also rank first all time.

Of the two most frequent alternatives, on average, sinkers have far more horizontal movement than cutters. While Mo's cutter had good rise, its excellent horizontal movement even at the tail end of his career is likely the reason it broke bats. Just don't expect the typical cutter to do so.

The only other pitchers to throw a no-hitter in their first Major League starts are Ted Breitenstein (1891), Bobo Holloman (1953) and Tyler Gilbert (2021), though each of them made a handful of relief appearances before etching their names into the record books.

On the same day that Rickey Henderson broke Lou Brock's all-time steals record, Nolan Ryan made history as well, recording his major league record seventh no-hitter. On May 1, 1991, at the age of 44, Ryan became the oldest player to register a no-hitter.

On September 2, 1990, he pitched the first (and, as of 2024, only) no-hitter in Blue Jays history, defeating the Cleveland Indians 3–0. Going into the 1989, Stieb brought a scoreless streak to 34 straight innings, the longest such streak in franchise history, before giving up one run to the Royals on April 5, 1989.