"It's not often that a 5 1/3-inning no-decision is the biggest story of the night, especially when it's a four-hour, 21-minute Yankees-Red Sox marathon.

We could go on about Curtis Granderson's catch, Nick Swisher's self-admitted ridiculous bunt, Mariano Rivera's near-implosion, Andruw Jones' 14-pitch at-bat, Russell Martin's huge hit, Jesus Montero's debut or a slew of other things, but at the end of the day, Thursday night's game was all about A.J. Burnett.

Burnett threw 5 1/3 innings, allowing two runs on five hits and two walks, striking out four. Hardly the stuff Cy Youngs are made of, but given the atrocious stuff we've seen from him over the past two months, it looked pretty darn good.

Burnett certainly did enough to stay in the rotation, meaning that Phil Hughes will likely find himself banished to a relief role sometime in the next week. Burnett, using some new mechanics with his hands and body that he and Larry Rothschild worked on this week, believes that Thursday's start could be a huge turning point for him."