Tampa Bay Devil Rays second baseman, and former Tokyo Yakult Swallows slugger, Akinori Iwamura, had his appeal to reduce the severity of his three-game suspension rejected. He will sit out the rest of the series versus the Pittsburgh Pirates and the first game of the Boston Red Sox series that is scheduled for Monday.

June 29th, 2008 Hanshin Tigers 4 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 9 Streak: Won 1. Last 5: LWWLW (“Home” game at Akita) Yakult battled to a good win against Hanshin on Sunday afternoon, helped by the J and K of the Tigers relief trio JFK giving up 5 runs between them, to allow the Swallows to break [...]