Articles by paperbacklou

The Yankees were down 3-2 with 1 out in the 8th inning, running out of time, having lost all 4 games against Oakland this season and staring at a 5th straight loss to them, when […]

Another game another loss to Oakland. That’s four straight. Three straight close loses in Oakland last weekend, and in this game at the Stadium — Gleyber Torres bobblehead night — the Yanks had a 2-1 […]

This was another fun day at the ballpark — fun for the Yankees and their fans. Gary Sanchez led off the scoring with a 2-run BLAST in the 1st inning — he had told Alex […]

Start-by-start through the month of August, Masahiro Tanaka has been getting better and better. Finding his splitter after changing the grip, and putting all his pitches together. The 12-run debacle at the hands of Boston […]

J.A. Happ is coming on line. Getting better. In this game — allowed only 2 hits — albiet one of them was a 3-run homer to 2nd baseman Dylan Moore in the 2nd inning, giving […]

Well that was a Tough loss. But “very interesting”. It came down to the 9th inning, bases loaded for the Yankees, 1 out — the Dodgers ace reliever Kenley Jansen facing Mike Tauchman, and then […]

The Yankees Crushed Hyun-Jin Ryu and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in the 1st game of this highly anticipated matchup between the teams with the best records so far in the American and National […]

For the 3rd time in 3 nights the Yankees ran into some good Oakland A’s pitching in the pitcher-friendly Oakland ballpark (huge foul ball area) and couldn’t muster enough offense in losing their 4th straight. […]

It wasn’t the pitching, it was the offense. Some of it was the pitching. J.A. Happ was a happy Happ for half an inning, staked to a 1-0 lead in the top of the 2nd, […]