The dynasty didn't end with Jay Witasick or Randy Choate on the mound. The dynasty ended with Mariano Rivera pitching in the bottom of the ninth inning of one of the greatest baseball games ever ...

If you needed one pitcher to pitch one inning of an important playoff game, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone better than Mariano Rivera. Sure, anyone on this list would be great ...

and Mariano Rivera. Whether it was hitting a walk-off home run, pitching their team through a jam, or winning a World Series, these players always seemed to make the big play when their team ...

Elijah-Jay Mariano Rivera, who was known as "Big Tex" to his teammates, had recently moved back to the area from Fort Worth, Texas Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...