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Mariano Ricera got the easy save, but he looked pretty hittable to me. His pitches didn't have their usual movement and weren't as well located as usual. Maybe this is widhful thinking on my part, but he may have lost a bit of his stuff.

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Mariano Ricera got the easy save, but he looked pretty hittable to me. His pitches didn't have their usual movement and weren't as well located as usual. Maybe this is widhful thinking on my part, but he may have lost a bit of his stuff.

Yep thought the same thing. Wieters squared one up.

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Mariano Ricera got the easy save, but he looked pretty hittable to me. His pitches didn't have their usual movement and weren't as well located as usual. Maybe this is widhful thinking on my part, but he may have lost a bit of his stuff.

I agree. I watched him pitch in his 2 previous outings before tonight, and he looked very hittable in those games, as well.

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Mariano Ricera got the easy save, but he looked pretty hittable to me. His pitches didn't have their usual movement and weren't as well located as usual. Maybe this is widhful thinking on my part, but he may have lost a bit of his stuff.

Good to hear (missed the last inning), this may be good for us with 17 games against the Yankees to go....but hopefully it won't matter in most of the games.

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Mariano Ricera got the easy save, but he looked pretty hittable to me. His pitches didn't have their usual movement and weren't as well located as usual. Maybe this is widhful thinking on my part, but he may have lost a bit of his stuff.

Wow, how did you manage to watch the game this far? After seeing Manny turn a double play into a triple play all by himself, i couldn't watch anymore. I know the calendar said Friday the 12th, but this game had Friday the 13th written all over it. Glad I bailed out before the end.

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Wow, how did you manage to watch the game this far? After seeing Manny turn a double play into a triple play all by himself, i couldn't watch anymore. I know the calendar said Friday the 12th, but this game had Friday the 13th written all over it. Glad I bailed out before the end.

Because I didn't give up on Wednesday night, and look what happened. This team doesn't give up on itself, no matter what, and I won't give up on them even when they've frustrated me with some costly, sloppy plays in a game. I've seen them bounce back too many times to give up hope. Three runs in one inning isn't exactly unprecedented.

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The first two outs were on line drive ropes. I agree Frobby, the pitches certainly didn't have their normal break.

However, one might simply attribute that to the cold....

Or perhaps the extended use of the cutter is ruining his velocity ....

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Interesting article on by Buster Olney about Rivera facing Brady Anderson, Raffy, and Alomar back in the day, if anyone is interested.

It is an insider article, but here's a tidbit:

For the record, Anderson did fine against Rivera: In 22 at-bats, he had six hits, including a couple of doubles, a walk and two strikeouts. Facing Rivera was a comfortable at-bat, explained the former Orioles outfielder, who now serves the team as its vice president of baseball operations.

Anderson recalled that two of his most prolific teammates, Rafael Palmeiro and Roberto Alomar, shared a small bat that they employed only against Rivera. It was 32 inches in length, which made it easier for the hitters to manipulate in the effort to get inside of Rivera's cutter, and the bat was special enough to Alomar and Palmeiro that they bestowed a nickname upon it: Stumpy.

http://http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/blog/_/name/olney_buster/id/9169975/mariano-rivera-brady-anderson-story-stumpy-mlb

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Mariano Ricera got the easy save, but he looked pretty hittable to me. His pitches didn't have their usual movement and weren't as well located as usual. Maybe this is widhful thinking on my part, but he may have lost a bit of his stuff.

He has indeed been very hittable lately, Franklyn.

http://forum.orioleshangout.com/forums/showthread.php/130510-The-2013-New-York-Yankees?p=3167787#post3167787

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