Articles by paperbacklou

Frankie Montas got Lit Up for 5 runs in the 2nd inning by the Toronto Blue Jays and allowed 6 runs overall in 6 innings of pitching — his 2nd 6-run start in 3 games […]

It was the shot heard all around Yankee Twitter and Yankee Universe. Josh Donaldson hit a walk-off Grand Slam in the bottom of the 10th to resuscitate the Yankees from a 7-4 deficit and win the […]

It happened again. The Yankees lost. And they didn’t hardly score. An Andrew Benintendi triple and RBI grounder by Miguel Andujar is all they could muster in the 3-1 Tampa win at Yankee Stadium. And […]

Aaron Hicks misjudged a ball in centerfield leading to the only run of the game until Tampa put 3 more on the board in the 9th, and at the plate killed the Yankees’ best rally […]

Michael Wacha pitched 7 innings of 2-hit shutout baseball to beat Jameson Taillon and the Yanks 3-0 on a summer Sunday night at Fenway. Wacha had a no hitter going into the 5th, when Miguel […]

Isiah Kiner-Falefa hit a 2-run homer to tie the game in the 5th — his first homer of the season — then bunted in the winning run in the top of the 9th (to have […]

Clay Holmes blew another save, allowing consecutive walks and then a single to JD Martinez with 1 out in the 9th inning, and Lou Trivino allowed the inherited runner to score in the 10th with […]

Albert Abreu relieved Nestor Cortes in the bottom of the 7th, the Yankees leading 3-2, and coughed up a 2-run homer to Carlos Santana for the 4-3 Seattle victory. Cortes and Robbie Ray had been […]

Gerrit Cole pitched like an ace — 7 shutout innings — in his pitchers’ duel with Luis Castillo — who pitched 8 shutout innings — and the Yankee bullpen was phenomenal. But Yankee baserunning blunders […]

And on the 7th day, the Yankees got good enough starting pitching, good enough relief pitching and a lot of runs to win the game — beating Seattle in Seattle on a Monday night. The […]