September 27th, 2012
Hanshin Tigers 12 
Tokyo Swallows 0
Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WLWWL
(Jingu Stadium)
The Swallows suffered their worst defeat of the season tonight, losing 12-0 to the Tigers. Like our recent wins, this loss was a team effort with lapses coming from all phases of the game. In an effort to minimize the trauma of reliving the experience, I’ll summarize the key takeaways below in bullet-form.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tigers | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 0 |
| Swallows | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| W: Iwamoto (2-0); L: Muranaka (9-7) | ||||||||||||
Tigers | Swallows |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hiroki Uemoto (2B) | 1 | Yuhei (Takai) (CF) |
| 2 | Yamato (Maeda) (CF) | 2 | Ryosuke Morioka (SS) |
| 3 | Takashi Toritani (SS) | 3 | HIroyasu Tanaka (2B) |
| 4 | Ryota Arai (3B) | 4 | Wladimir Balentien (RF) |
| 5 | Matt Murton (LF) | 5 | Shingo Kawabata (3B) |
| 6 | Masashi Nohara (1B) | 6 | Kazuki Fukuchi (LF) |
| 7 | Shota Ito (RF) | 7 | Shinichi Takeuchi (1B) |
| 8 | Shinji Komiyama (C) | 8 | Yuhei Nakamura (C) |
| 9 | Akira Iwamoto (P) | 9 | Kyohei Muranaka (P) |
- The Carp came from behind to sayonara the Giants to win 2-1, thus keeping the magic number between the two teams stuck at 2. The Carp don’t play tomorrow so the soonest the Swallows can clinch third place, and a place in the Climax Series, is Saturday.
- While neither player started, both Hatakeyama and Aikawa rejoined the team and entered the game. Although the two players went a combined 0-for-3 in their at bats.
- Every Swallows’ pitcher gave up at least 1 earned run. Masubuchi probably had the best night, giving up just 1 earned run in 3 innings pitched.
- Muranaka got tagged with 7 runs (4 earned) in 4.1 innings pitched, in which he gave up 4 hits and 4 walks.
- The Tigers’ deathblow came in the fifth when rookie Ito got a grandslam to stretch the lead to 9-0.
- All 7 hits by the Swallows were singles.
- Fukuchi was the only Swallows to have a decent night at the plate going 3-for-4 with a stolen base.
- Tonight was the Swallows’ 18th shutout loss of the season.
- The Swallows will try again tomorrow against the Tigers at Jingu with Ishikawa. The Tigers will start Iwata.
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