Articles by paperbacklou

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 […]

The Yankees vaunted lineup worked as designed in the winter, with Juan Soto (single), Aaron Judge (double), and Giancarlo Stanton (double) ripping consecutive hits and Anthony Rizzo topping it off with a homer for 4 […]

Baseball has a problem: The ball is clearly lively.  It MOVES when pitched. Everybody and their mother strikes out 10 in 5 innings these days. Pitching Ninja has become a cottage industry. Throw in computer-aided […]

Luis Gil (pronounced Heel as in Gila Monster) pitched 1-unearned-run baseball into the 6th inning, striking out 9, and Alex Verdugo got 3 hits and 2 RBI to lead the Yankees to a 5-4 win […]

Nestor Cortes pitched 7 shutout innings, allowing 6 hits, striking out 9 and walking nobody — a tremendous start. That was the good news. The bad news is that the Yankees never scored, losing 2-0 […]

Juan Soto hit a 3-run BLAST into the Upper Deck in right field in the 8th inning to propel the Yanks to another late inning, come-from-behind win — 5-3 over Tampa on a cold Friday […]

The Yankees were down 4-1 in the 8th inning and about to get swept in the 3-game series by the Blue Jays, but came back to win 6-4, as Jose Trevino stroked a game-tying single […]