Mariano Rivera is set to make his first appearance in The Bronx at Old-Timers’ Day on Sunday, and Brett Gardner made a fairly obvious prediction about the Hall-of-Famer’s debut: “I don’t think anyone will get a hit off of him.’’
It’s just part of Rivera’s Summer Tour, which will bring him to Yankee Stadium on Sunday and Cooperstown next month — when he’ll be inducted into the Hall of Fame, the first player to be voted in unanimously.
“I just talked to him this week, and he’s excited about coming here and then going to the Hall of Fame,’’ CC Sabathia said before the Yankees faced the Astros on Saturday.