Articles by paperbacklou

Aaron Judge came on like a hurricane — hitting a 3-run homer, a 2-run homer, and a solo homer — in succession — and threw in a double his first time up as well to […]

Gerrit Cole pitched another masterpiece — a Perfect Game into the 6th, a 1-hit shutout after 7, leaving after 8 innings up 5-1, having allowed just 2 hits, striking out 9, walking 0. Clay Holmes […]

Michael King pitched 7 innings of brilliant baseball, allowing only 1 run on 5 hits, striking out 13, with zero walks — but left down 1-0 as the Yankee offense could do nothing against Toronto […]

The Yankees and some of their fans have been clinging to Yogi Berra‘s immortal words “It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over” for the better part of September as they have been making an improbable and […]

Carlos Rodon was pitching great in a 2-2 tie with the Pirates in the 7th inning, when he got the final out of the inning, a grounder to 3rd by Jason Delay. But the ball […]

The Yankees pulled Luke Weaver off the scrap heap, and surprised everyone by starting him. Weaver was bombed early but settled in to strike out 7 in 4 innings of 3-run ball, and handed the […]

Down 5-3, the Yankees had bases loaded in the 9th with 1 out when Estevan Florial worked a 3-2 walk to score a run and make it 5-4, but next batter Anthony Volpe hit a […]

DJ LeMahieu got 3 hits, including a CLUTCH, 2-out RBI double in the top of the 8th, and Oswald Peraza hit a 2-run bomb in the 9th for insurance as the Yanks took 3 of […]

Michael King pitched well, allowing 1 run into the 5th inning, striking out 8, but Tanner Houck pitched better — 6 innings of shutout ball, and the Boston bullpen pitched a lot better than the […]