In an emotional moment that rang throughout baseball, longtime teammates Derek Jeter and Andy Pettitte came to the mound to relieve Mariano Rivera from his last appearance at Yankee Stadium.

"It's time to go," Jeter told Rivera, who was removed with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. He retired all four batters he faced. 

Pettitte embraced Rivera, who sobbed into his shoulder for several seconds.

"I was bombarded with emotions and feeling that I couldn't describe," Rivera said. "Everything hit at that time. I knew that was the last time. Period. I never felt like that before."

Joe Girardi said he conceived the idea in the eighth inning of including Jeter and Pettitte.

"I've never seen a player pull another player, so I had to ask. And then one of them was on the DL," he said.

Girardi conferred with plate umpire Laz Diaz before the ninth, and Diaz consulted with crew chief Mike Winters.

"Then I said, 'Well, can I send two?' and they said, 'Well, go ahead.' And I really appreciate (that) because I think it made the moment even more special for Mo," Girardi said.

Video of the scene can be seen here, courtesy of MLB.com: Mo's Heartwarming Exit