Articles by paperbacklou

After 2 hours of the yearly Old Timer’s Day lovefest — with former Yankee champions like Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, Bernie Williams, Andy Pettitte, CC Sabathia, Willie Randolph and all the rest talking about winning […]

It’s 1998 all over again — again — as the Yankee starters are back in high gear matching, or one-upping each other as they were earlier in the season. On this night, Carlos Rodon pitched […]

What a beautiful afternoon at Yankee Stadium. Sunny, temperature in low 70’s, and Gerrit Cole and the Yankee pen throwing a 1-hit shutout against Cleveland, with Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton providing Homers in a […]

Thank F’ng God for Nestor Cortes. And Juan Soto and Aaron Judge. For the 2nd start in a row, Cortes threw 7 shutout innings and was aided by offense provided by Juan Soto and Aaron […]

What a colossal wasted opportunity this game was. You can’t give away a game as many times as the Yankees seemed to do: The Yanks could have won the game in the 8th, but Trent […]

After a fun, fun day with the little leaguers at the Little League World Series in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania — Clay Holmes blew the save in the 9th, and Mark Leiter Jr.blew the game in the […]

Rookie righthander Keider Montero shut out the Yankees for 5 innings, and then the Detroit pen of Tyler Holton and Jason Foley finished the job for a 4-0 Tiger win in Detroit on a Saturday […]

Gerrit Cole was dominant with 6 shutout innings, Oswald Peraza and Aaron Judge hit homers, and the bullpen was terrific as the Yanks came away with a relatively ‘clean’ 3-0 win over the Tigers in […]

Oswaldo Cabrera sprinted home from 2nd base on a sac fly in the 7th inning to tie the game, and seemingly ignite the Bronx Bombers, who bombed late — with 9 runs in the 7th […]

Nestor Cortes was NASTY — pitching 7 innings of 3-hit, shutout ball, striking out 9 and walking nobody — and Juan Soto hit 3 (three) homeruns to provide all Yankee runs and propel NY to […]