Burnett Dominates Weakened Mets Lineup

A.J. Burnett fans Jeremy Reed for one of his 10 K's

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NY Yankees	0	0	1	0	0	4	0	0	0		5	8	0
NY Mets	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	1	0

WP - Burnett (6-4) LP - Redding (1-3)

No one would have expected A.J. Burnett to go out and top CC Sabathia’s performance from Friday night (7 IP 3 H 1 ER), but that’s exactly what the fellow “initialed” starter did last night. Burnett had a no-no for 5 innings and threw 7 innings of 1-hit, shutout baseball in the Yankees 5-0 win over their crosstown rivals, the New York Mets.

The Yankees bats also continued their offensive resurgence in picking up their 4th straight win. Home runs by Jorge Posada and Nick Swisher sent Tim Redding to the showers in the 6th inning and broke up again a close game. Burnett was the story in this one though as the veteran right-hander took advantage of a Mets lineup weakened by injuries. He walked two batters in the 2nd inning, but got catcher Brian Schneider to pop out to...

Read the rest of my recap at Baseball Digest Online.