Articles by paperbacklou

Hector Cortes Jr executed his pitch and hit his spot — but Blue Jays centerfielder Randal Grichuk served it deep into the left field seats for a 3-run homer (his 28th) and 6-3 Toronto lead […]

Brett Gardner > Mike Trout. Gardner is the best player in baseball right now. That was what was surfacing on Yankee Twitter as Gardner was having another spectacular day at the ballpark, lifting the Yankees […]

It was a full moon, It was Friday the 13th. It was Tanaka Friday. It was close to midnight in Toronto — the witching hour. It was a walkoff homerun by Toronto’s Bo Bichette in […]

Win wise, it was a great day. The Yankees swept the Tigers in Detroit, 10-4 and 6-4; Domingo German got his 18th win, and the Astros lost to Oakland so the Yankees took a 2-game […]

This was a game where Yankee fans on twitter were describing what they were doing when they came back and found that Detroit — the worst team in baseball at 42-100 — had erased the […]

“James Paxton is a horse and we’re riding that man into October”, tweeted Eric Hubbs of BarStool Sports. It was the tweet of the night. Paxton pitched into the 7th — 4-hit shutout baseball. He […]

It is starting to look like the Boston Red Sox are not going to make the playoffs this year. They had been hanging onto hope of a last-month push but are now 8 games out […]

J.A. Happ is on a roll. And when a good off-speed pitcher gets on a roll, he makes the game look very easy. Out after out. Easy groundball; easy flyout; some strikeouts; minimum pitches; 1-2-3 […]

It is now a long shot that Domingo German get 20 wins this year. He is 17-4 after losing to Boston 6-1 in this game, with 20 games left aka 4 more starts. This loss […]

Safe to say Aaron Judge‘s decisive, mighty, home-run bat is back — it has been for several weeks now — and his 2-run opposite field homer to lead off the scoring in the 3rd was […]