Articles by paperbacklou

For those who have forgotten about baseball during the long delay to the start of the 2020 season due to Coronavirus, here is what the roster looks like: Starting Pitchers 1. Masahiro Tanaka (RH, 6’3, 31 […]

The 2019 season ends for the Yankees — 103 regular season wins, an AL East title, swept the Minnesota Twins in the ALDS, but then lost to Houston, 4 games to 2, in the ALCS. […]

And just like that it was over. The DJ LeMahieu miracle 2-run homer to tie the game in the top of the 9th was wasted — as Jose Altuve‘s 2-run walk-off homer in the bottom […]

The Yankees got all their runs in the 1st inning, exploding for a game-tying homer by DJ LeMahieu and a 3-run bomb by Aaron Hicks that hit the right-field foul poll, and James Paxton recovered […]

The Yankees are on the ropes. They need to win 3 games in a row against Houston. Not impossible. Each game thus far has been winnable for them. But they’re going to need to get […]

Hopefully, the 3-run BOMB by Didi Gregorius that died and was caught at the wall in right by Josh Reddick in the 5th inning will NOT be remembered YEARS from now — it would have put […]

Aaron Judge‘s 2-run home run in the 4th accounted for the only runs the Yanks could muster against Justin Verlander and the Houston bullpen in this heartbreaker that evened the playoff series at 1 game […]

The Yankees outplayed the Astros in every facet in the 1st game of the ALCS, beating them in Houston 7-0. Gleyber Torres was the hitting STAR — leading off the scoring with an RBI-double off […]

Luis Severino threw down 4 shutout innings to out duel Minnesota ace Jake Odorizzi, and then the Yankee bullpen came in to lock this game down — allowing the Yankees to extend a 2-0 lead […]