Articles by paperbacklou

There is no time clock in baseball. Each team gets 9 turns of the bat and the home team gets “last licks.” NY put their “last licks” to good use in this game at Yankee […]

Carlos Rodon was bombed for 3 homer balls and wasn’t helped by Gleyber Torres, who muffed a double-play ball in the 5th that led to 3 more runs as the Yanks got crushed 7-2 by […]

Luis Gil pitched masterful, 2-hit, shutout ball into the 7th inning, Oswaldo Cabrera hit a 2-run homer for the only runs of the game, and the Yankee bullpen shut the door, with a “filthy” Clay […]

Nestor Cortes allowed two doubles and two infield singles in the 4th inning for 3 runs, and that was too much to allow as Baltimore beat NY 4-2 on a Tuesday night in Baltimore. Austin […]

Young 6’5 righty ace Grayson Rodriguez outdid Clarke Schmidt, and the Yankees threatened all night with 10 baserunners, but couldn’t break through in the 2-0 loss on a warm Monday night in Baltimore. Schmidt allowed […]

Did the MLB sneak in a different baseball during the weekend? Faced with a growing crisis of SUPER LOW batting averages, and games where everything has been a strikeout or a homerun possibly due to […]

It was a HIT PARADE for the Yankees at American Family Field in Milwaukee, with NY banging out 19 hits and 4 homers in a 15-3 rout of the Brewers on a Saturday night. Aaron […]

The Yankees ran out of pitchers. And so Michael Tonkin took the mound in the bottom of the 10th with the Yankees up 6-5, after Giancarlo Stanton‘s clutch double in the top of the 10th […]

The Yankees banged out 11 hits and got 3 walks — but only scored 1 run as they squandered opportunity after opportunity in losing to the A’s 3-1 at Yankee Stadium on a cold Thursday […]

Aaron Judge, Juan Soto, and Anthony Rizzo hit homers, and Clarke Schmidt pitched shutout ball into the 6th as the Yankees beat Oakland 7-3 on a Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium. Judge’s homer came in […]