Former Tokyo great Shingo Takatsu has picked up his first save for the Woori Heroes of the Korean Baseball Organization, making him the first player to notch saves in NPB, MLB, and KBO. (HT to NPB Tracker for being the first, that we’ve seen, to report it in English.)
6/29/08 – Hanshin ("Home" at Akita)
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6/28/08 – Hanshin ("Home" at Akita)
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June 28th, 2008 Hanshin Tigers 7 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 1. Last 5: WLWWL (“Home” game at Akita) The Swallows resumed their Central League program with a hammering at the hands of league leaders Hanshin on Saturday night.
Rios Suspended for Doping
June 28, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Daniel Rios, a pitcher that Tokyo Yakult brought in from Korea to fill the very large gap in the starting rotation left by Seth Greisinger (currently 6-6, 4.20 ERA with Yomiuri), has received a one-year suspension for doping. The suspension is in effect until June 27th, 2009. Rios was dropped from the first team on [...]
New Free Agency Rules
June 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Chris Pellegrini and I started fairly regularly attending games together in the 2004 season. Like many other fans, we set out to watch a ballgame and instead engaged in a series of lamentations on the future of the sport punctuated by sudden cheers or exasperated sighs, maybe even a rendition or two of “Tokyo Ondo” [...]
Mr. Watkins's Secret Past
June 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
No baseball. Lots of work. Here’s a throwaway post to tide everyone over. When I first met our own David Watkins in the stands at Jingu, I was impressed at the breadth and depth of his baseball knowledge, not to mention his enthusiasm for the game. After all, baseball has about the fan base of [...]
TYS Interleague Games 2008 – The Review
June 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Well, this year’s Interleague schedule, which pitted Yakult against the boys from the (stronger) Pacific League for a month or so, is now over. So how did we fare? Erm, not so well. The Swallows finished 9th out of the NPB’s 12 teams. The PL teams as a whole beat the CL teams 73 games [...]
6/23/08 – Orix (Home)
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