The Rays Go Back-to-back On Mariano Rivera

It wasn't a save opportunity for Rivera Thursday night, and that is the good news.

Carl Crawford and Evan Longoria went back-to-back off of the Yankee closer in the top of the 9th inning and broke a 6-6 tie. Rivera through 24 pitches to get out of the 9th and the home runs were the only hits he gave up.

I'd start to worry a little bit about Mariano Rivera. This is the 3 time in 5 appearances that he's given up runs and 2 of them were 2 run affairs.

Right now Rivera's cutter isn't cutting consistently. That pitch is everything for him and he needs to get it working consistently in order for him to have success. Hopefully its just a bad stretch or maybe just a stretch of good teams.

We will keep an eye and try and find out if he's hiding a injury or if it's nothing.