Articles by paperbacklou

With 2 outs in the bottom of the 8th and the Yankees up 3-2, Clay Holmes walked a batter to put 1st and 2nd, and then allowed a bases-clearing double down the right field line […]

In a featured pitchers’ duel, Gerrit Cole faced just-traded-to-Seattle ace Luis Castillo on a hot summer Wednesday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 1pm start. By 1:20pm it looked like this for Cole in the top of […]

The Yankees came back from a 4-0 deficit and 6-3 deficit to tie the game 6-6, but fell behind again 8-6 and couldn’t get the big hit with bases loaded, 2 outs in the 9th […]

Anthony Rizzo hit a 3-run homer, Aaron Judge hit a 2-run homer, and Jose Trevino hit 2 solo homers to power the Yanks to the 7-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on a summer Monday […]

Clay Holmes blew the save, allowing a 3-run homer to Salvador Perez in the top of the 9th to cough up a 6-5 Yankee lead, sending NY to the 8-6 defeat. Earlier Jordan Montgomery was […]

This one was never in doubt. The Yankees jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first 2 innings, capped by ANOTHER home run by Aaron Judge — this one a 2-run job — and […]

The Yankees scored 8 runs against the Kansas City Royals in the bottom of the 8th to come back from a 5-3 deficit, highlighted by an Aaron Judge Grand Slam that put the game away. […]

Aaron Judge broke a 0-0 tie in the bottom of the 9th with a 430-foot BOMB to centerfield for a walk-off Yankee win over the Kansas City Royals, 1-0. Judge hit a first-pitch, 95-MPH fastball […]

Domingo German did his job. Lucas Luetge did his job. Jonathan Loaisiga did his job. Clay Holmes did his job. And Gleyber Torres certainly did his job. But Wandy Peralta‘s Magic Wand wasn’t working — […]

It all started out so good. In the top of the 1st, the Yankees jumped on top 2-0 when Aaron Judge hit an opposite-field homer to right at Citifield, and his buddy Anthony Rizzo hit […]