It’s a good week to be a former nemesis of Mariano Rivera.
Edgar Martinez made it into the Hall of Fame on Tuesday — alongside Rivera — and now the player who scored perhaps the biggest run ever against Rivera is a step closer to making it back to the majors as a manager.
Jay Bell, who scored the winning run in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series on Luis Gonzalez’s flare single off Rivera in the bottom of the ninth, was named manager of the Yankees’ Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre affiliate. He will replace Bobby Mitchell, who was not retained.