An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
April 9th, 2013 Tokyo Swallows 0 Chunichi Dragons 5 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LLLWL (Nagoya Dome) Please excuse me, this one will be brief. This game has already taken up three hours of my life that I will never get back, so I’ll try to waste as little of yours as possible. I [...]
April 2nd, 2013 Tokyo Swallows 5 Hiroshima Carp 3 Streak: Won 3 Last 5: LWWW (Mazda Zooooom Zooooom Stadium) Tokyo made it three wins on the bounce in what turned out to be (in the end) a rather wild game in Hiroshima. And they followed the blueprint for their prior two wins by taking [...]
March 30th, 2013 Hanshin Tigers 0 Tokyo Swallows 1 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LW (Jingu Stadium) The day after being thoroughly outplayed in every department, Tokyo got things back on track as they rode on the back of eight plus innings of three-hit Ishikawa pitching to their first win of 2013. Saturday’s lineup saw one [...]
With the resumption of real baseball just around the corner, please lend us your Tsubakuro shaped ears (wait, does he have any ears?) as Dave and Christopher discuss/waffle on about: The all new Tokyo Swallows Podcast sponsorship deal. The WBC. Who’s earning what on the Swallows. 2013 CL discussion and (cast iron) predictions. IN DEPTH [...]
Well we knew they were coming, but the Swallows have unveiled their “new” uniforms that will be used in battle from the 2013 season onwards. The uniforms are a return to the colour scheme used during the organisation’s most successful period, the 1990s, with the red pinstripes returning for the home uniforms, along with the [...]
October 13th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 1 Chunichi Dragons 6 Series: Chunichi 1-0 Tokyo (Nagoya Dome) Tokyo were dismantled with ease by Chunichi in the first game of the playoffs, in a game that neither the bats or pitching did much at all for the cause. Ogawa made the questionable decision of starting Ishikawa for game [...]
October 5th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 2 Hanshin Tigers 0 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: WWLWW (Koshien) Ishikawa made his case for a Climax Series starting spot in Nagoya with eight good innings as Tokyo won their final game of the year with Hanshin. Outside of the 2nd inning when he allowed two singles to lead [...]
October 2nd, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 6 Yokohama BayStars 2 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LWLWW (Yokohama Stadium) A decent shift from Nakazawa and Coco Balentien’s 31st homer of the season were the standouts as Tokyo beat Miura and the Baystars in Yokohama. As the Swallows trudge through a week of what are essentially warm up [...]
September 25th, 2012 Hanshin Tigers 0 Tokyo Swallows 3 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WLWLW (Jingu Stadium) Eight innings of three-hit shutout Tateyama baseball, some timely hitting, and a wee bit of help from an inept Hanshin outfit opened the playoff door yet wider for the in-form Swallows. Tateyama was coming into the game [...]
September 18th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 2 Hiroshima Carp 1 Streak: Won 5 Last 5: WWWWW (Mazda Stadium) Tokyo made another huge stride toward the post-season as they made it five on the bounce with another win in Hiroshima with Shohei Tateyama putting in a nine-inning/one-run shift. Tokyo’s offence meanwhile huffed and puffed stranding runners [...]
