Fox Sports showed a little-known look into the realm of Mariano Rivera's life inside the bullpen when the camera caught baseball's all-time saves leader signing a baseball and having it sent to a fan during some down time for the big-time closer.
The moment captured one of the reasons Rivera is one of the most popular players in Yankees history and one of the classiest player in professional sports.
The Yankees scored 15 unanswered runs— after trailing 9-0— in an unfathomable win over their rivals. There were a lot of glum faces and frustrated Red Sox fans in the stadium when Rivera pulled out his pen and put his John Hancock on the cowhide.
Rivera's simple gesture of signing a baseball to pass the time in the ninth inning and having the autographed ball sent to the stands shows why he is one of the good guys in sports.
Maybe Rivera didn't know it— he was on the bullpen bench— but there weren't too many Sawx fans waiting for the memento.
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