Articles by paperbacklou

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 […]

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 […]