{"id":3660,"date":"2013-07-16T23:05:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T03:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2013-07-16T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T03:31:08","slug":"mariano-rivera-brings-crowd-to-their-feet-at-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/16\/mariano-rivera-brings-crowd-to-their-feet-at-all-star-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariano Rivera brings crowd to their feet at All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3661 alignright\" alt=\"marianorivera\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/marianorivera.png\" width=\"276\" height=\"418\" \/>Yankee fan or not, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who would argue that Mariano Rivera is not the best closer in baseball.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WRSJLEImLo0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today, Yesterday, All time.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night the 43-year-old entered Citi Field to a standing ovation from the crowd and both benches.<\/p>\n<p>With Enter Sandman blasting the sound system at the home of the Mets it was simply the Yankee closer on the field as Rivera tipped his hat and went to work.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>What an incredible moment right here. The greatest of all time!!! Enter the Sandman!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ASG&amp;src=hash\">#ASG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Cuddyer (@mcuddy3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcuddy3\/statuses\/357332105803481088\">July 17, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Manny and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23AL&amp;src=hash\">#AL<\/a> players give a standing ovation to Mariano Rivera as he takes the mound for the B8. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ASG&amp;src=hash\">#ASG<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/dpm022aqJL\">pic.twitter.com\/dpm022aqJL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Orioles\/statuses\/357333479249289218\">July 17, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly Rivera sat the National League down in order. In case you were wondering why Rivera was pitching the eighth it was to ensure that he would appear in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Nathan was given the honor of closing the game for the American League. After the game Rivera was named the MVP of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yankee fan or not, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who would argue that Mariano Rivera is not the best closer in baseball. Today, Yesterday, All time. On Tuesday night the 43-year-old entered Citi Field to a standing ovation from the crowd and both benches. With Enter Sandman blasting the sound system at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}