May 23rd, 2012 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Chiba Lotte Marines 5 Streak: Lost 4 Last 5: WLLLL (QVC Marine Field) Whatever shortcomings our own Messrs. Watkins and Pellegrini may find in its charms (listen to the podcast), the PL continues to demonstrate it’s aplomb in one area of particular interest, viz. baseball. Despite staying [...]
5/16/12 – Fukuoka (Home)
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5/13/12 – Yomiuri (“Home”)
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May 13, 2012 Yomiuri Giants 5 Tokyo Swallows 1 Streak: L1 Last 5: LLWDL (Akita Komachi Stadium) Sometimes you lose in spirit by tying and sometimes you just actually lose. This one was fairly close until the end, which adds excitement and agony. The first spate of runs came in the second, when Murata [...]
5/9/12 – Chunichi (Away)
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May 9th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 3 Chunichi Dragons 8 Streak: Lost 3 Last 5: WWLLL (Gifu Stadium) Chunichi widened their lead over Tokyo in the standings with a convincing win. Not a fun game for the Swallows, to say the least. Muranaka’s first three batters singled, sac-bunted, and singled again. After a weak Wada grounder [...]
5/4/12 – Hiroshima (Home)
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May 4th, 2012 Hiroshima Carp 4 Tokyo Swallows 8 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LWWLW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Miyamoto got his two-thousandth hit, which got the Swallows more TV coverage than they’ve had in an age, but that was hardly the most exciting part of this afternoon’s slug fest. The rain-soaked early [...]
5/2/12 – Yokohama (Away)
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May 2nd, 2012 Tokyo Swallows Yokohama BayStars Streak: Won 2 Last 5: WWLWW (Yokohama Stadium) Rained Out This one was a wash-out. Literally. It’ll get made up at the end of the season, when, I predict, it will mean squat to Yokohama, but might be useful to Tokyo. The Swallows remain tied for first [...]
04/25/12 – Chunichi (Home)
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April 25th, 2012 Chunichi Dragons 1 Tokyo Swallows 1 Streak: Tied 1 Last 5: WWWWD (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Ties are when everyone loses. Both teams lose, the fans lose, ecology loses. Maybe the beer girls win. Well, their managers win. Tokyo looked a bit better, purely subjectively, but the numbers don’t show it. This game was almost [...]
04/18/12 Hanshin (Away)
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April 18th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 3 Hanshin Tigers 2 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LWWLW (Koshien Stadium) A win, dear friends, is a win. Tokyo’s durable starter, Tateyama, tossed 103 pitches over eight innings, giving up six hits, a walk, and two runs, while striking out seven on the way to his first win of [...]
04/11/12 Yokohama (Home)
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April 11th, 2012 Yokohama BayStars 7 Tokyo Swallows 0 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LWWWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) The lowly BayStars snapped a six-game losing streak and managed to notch their second win of the season by slapping Masanori Ishikawa around like, well. . . like Ishikawa on a bad night. That the game was [...]
04/04/12 Hanshin (Home)
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April 4th, 2012 Hanshin Tigers 5 Tokyo Swallows 5 Streak: Tied 1 Last 5: WWLD- (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Some ties you’re happy to get, some are a letdown; the box score lets you know which one the Birds’ delayed home opener was. Tateyama took the mound for Tokyo and got off to a pleasing [...]
