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Legendary New York Yankees jug Mariano Rivera reportedly injured an Achilles under the club’s 77. Old Time-Day Games on Saturday, a team spokesman told New York Daily News.
Fellow’s former Yankees Pitcher Rodger Clemens first revealed the damage in an interview during the WFan broadcast of the Yankees game.
“It was a fun day until we just heard about Mariano. Mariano injured Hans Achilles,” Clemens said. “I think he’s in the hospital now.”
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Rivera produced one of the highlights of Saturday’s old-fashioned day game when he came up to hit and hit a single from former teammate and colleagues Yankees legend Andy Pettite.
Saturday’s old timer ‘Day, Yankees’ victory in 2000 World Series is commemorated over the Crosstown rival New York Mets. Rivera, Clemens and Pettite were all key players on that team.
Rivera became the first and only player to be selected for Baseball Hall of Fame unanimously when he was introduced in 2019.
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Donald Trump, Right, presents the presidential medal of freedom to Mariano Rivera in the eastern space of the White House in Washington, DC, September 16, 2019. (Andrew Harler/Blomberg)
Rivera, 55, approved President Donald Trump during Trump’s presidential campaign in 2024.
“President Trump, he’s my friend,” Rivera said at WABC Radio’s “Sid & Friends.” “I can’t deny it. I want to tell anyone. Before he was president, he was my friend. Because of that I will vote for him.”
Donald Trump is getting ready to play catch with Mariano Rivera, MLB Hall of Fame closer to Yankees, during a Major League baseball opening day event at the White House in Washington, DC, July 23, 2020. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump awarded the Rivera Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019. Trump, a Yankees fan, praised Rivera as “perhaps the greatest jug of all time.”
