Articles by paperbacklou

The Yanks trailed 5-0 in the 6th, and 7-2 in the 8th but made a game of it — falling short 7-5 on a showery Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. Taj Bradley shut the Yankee […]

The Yanks were leading 2-1 to start the top of the 8th on a “Bullpen Day” that reliever Ryan Yarbrough started, and Suzyn Waldman uttered a classic broadcaster jinx, saying “this bullpen day has worked […]

Max Fried pitched 7 innings of 1-hit, shutout baseball, the Yank bullpen of Devin Williams and Luke Weaver was lights out, Oswaldo Cabrera made some nifty plays at 3rd base, and Paul Goldschmidt hit a […]

Old man and former Ace Carlos Carrasco had a tough 2nd inning — his slider was ‘backing up’ aka not working — and an early 2-0 Yankee lead went with it as the Orioles won […]

The game in Baltimore on a warm Tuesday night started out like this: Trent Grisham HR to right (412 feet) Aaron Judge HR to right (364 feet) Ben Rice HR to right (378 feet) Paul […]

Will Warren walked a couple of guys and made “the big mistake” — a 3-run homer in the 3rd inning — and Orioles’ starter Tomoyuki Sugano didn’t as the Yanks went down to defeat 4-3 […]

Aaron Judge broke a 1-1 tie with his 8th homer of the season in the bottom of the 6th to get to — and open the floodgates on — a very tough Chris Bassitt. It […]

It’s a good thing they postponed the prior game on Saturday — a warm, beautiful day for baseball when, after a white-rain thunderstorm from 12:45 to 1:10 pm, it didn’t rain at all, as expected. […]

The Yankees waited out a very tough Jose Berrios, and scored 2 runs on the Toronto bullpen to take a 2-1 lead into the 9th inning — but Devin Williams blew the save — allowing […]

Carlos Rodon pitched 7 innings of 4-hit, 0-earned-run ball, striking out 8 and walking 2 in his most dominant performance of the season so far to lead the Yankees to a 5-1 win over the […]