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Enter Sandman! Yankees great Mariano Rivera tackles the opioid crisis

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Enter Sandman! Yankees great Mariano Rivera tackles the opioid crisis

Mariano Rivera saved hundreds of games for the New York Yankees over nearly 20 years. Now he’s coming out of retirement for the save once again — this time to tackle the opioid crisis.

The greatest closer in baseball history, who holds the records for regular season games saved at 652 games and post-season saves at 42, is promoting PainShield, a product of Elmsford, New York-based NanoVibronix Inc. that uses a slow release ultrasound to deliver fast pain relief. The device is being pitched as an alternative to the prescribing of opioids, as it is meant to resolve the cause of nerve and soft tissue pain.

Mr. Rivera might have been able to dominate baseball for even longer than his 19 seasons had he had access to this type of pain relief method. “If I would have had this product when I was playing baseball, I might have played another three, four years,” he told Fox News on Wednesday.

Competing teams would shudder at the thought, as Mr. Rivera was a core player on five Yankees World Series championship teams, a 13-time All-Star player and the 1999 World Series Most Valuable Player.

This isn’t Mr. Rivera’s first foray into the thick of the opioid epidemic. In 2017, the closer participated in a listening session for President Donald Trump’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis.

Maybe Mr. Rivera will tackle the opioid crisis in his Baseball Hall of Fame acceptance speech next year.

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