Articles by paperbacklou

James Paxton‘s ass gave everyone a scare — as the Yankee ace had to leave the game after 1 inning and Yankee Twitter spent the night not caring at all about the game — worried […]

Charlie Morton was a mediocre pitcher for years until he went to Houston and became unhittable. It is rumored he was given the secret sauce of the Houston pitching coach. Just like Dallas Keuchel before him […]

Tampa Bay — fighting for its playoff life in this game — played like it. With Cleveland having jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the 1st inning of its game en route to a […]

Luis Severino was the story in this game – super important for the Yankee playoff hopes. He was Brilliant with a capital B – 6 very strong shutout innings to beat the Blue Jays and […]

Winning is easy when your starting pitcher throws 6 shutout innings, allowing only 3 hits and no walks, while striking out 7. James Paxton did that vs Toronto at the Stadium in this 80-degree September […]

J.A. Happ pitched great, Aaron Judge pulled a monster home run to left to tie the game in the 4th, and Tyler Wade hero-launched a monster homer to right in the 5th to put the […]

Aaron Judge hit a 2-run homer off Angels starter Dillon Peters to tie the game 2-2 in the 3rd inning and that was it for the Yankee offense. The Angels’ bullpen of Luke Bard, Ty […]

It was a perfect evening for the Yankees — with Luis Severino returning for the 1st time this season and pitching 4 shutout, 2-hit innings, and the Yankee offense clobbering the Angels 8-0 led by […]

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 […]