"When the game started today, it certainly didn't look like this would be the day where Mariano Rivera got his first crack at saving career game No. 602, and becoming Major League Baseball's all-time saves leader. The Yankees, after all, had jumped out in front quickly against the Minnesota Twins in this make-up at Yankee Stadium, with two runs in the first, one in the second and two more in the third.

And A.J. Burnett was dealing.

"He was awesome," Yankees catcher Russell Martin said of Burnett. "It felt like it was going to be a shutout, the first three innings.""