When pressed about how his arm felt, Rivera said he had been dealing with a forearm issue. I was pitching with a tremendous soreness in my arm.” “I think Thursday was the day that I left everything on the field,” Rivera said. So the emotional sendoff at Yankee Stadium, when Rivera was taken out of the game by Andy Pettitte and Derek Jeter, will be his final outing of his career. I respect the game too much for me to do something that I’m not supposed to be doing.” I’m not going to make a fool of myself out there. “If it would have been a few years earlier, then I would have done it. “I did consider it strongly,” Rivera said. That also includes the possibility of him playing in center field, something Rivera and Girardi had hinted at before the trip, but Rivera didn’t want to take a risk with his surgically-repaired right knee. “I gave everything that I have,” Rivera said, adding he didn’t want to pitch in a game that had no bearing on the standings. Manager Joe Girardi said earlier he would give Rivera the option to change his mind and play Sunday, but Rivera erased any doubt. “I’m done,” Rivera said before the Yankees’ 2-1 win over the Astros on Saturday night at Minute Maid Park. HOUSTON - Mariano Rivera’s appearance on Thursday in The Bronx was the last of his career. Yanks legend wants team to move on from Aaron Boone Mariano Rivera explains his firing Aaron Boone comment No closer: Mariano Rivera-backed Baseball League 'hijacked' by rogue partner Mariano Rivera has front row seat to Nets closer's heroics
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