August 28th, 2010 Hanshin Tigers 9 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 1   Last 5: WLLWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) What poison can overcome the elation of a thumping of the Tigers? A thumping by the Tigers. This sucked. Good news first: Eulogio De La Cruz is a badass (except at pitching). His warm-up music [...]

August 27th, 2010 Hanshin Tigers 0 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 Streak: Won 1   Last 5: WWLLW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) What balm can soothe the sting of a loss to the BayStars? Turning around the next night to spank the Tigers. The Spankers: Aoki Tanaka Iihara Whitesell Hatakeyama Aikawa Takeuchi Fujimoto Tateyama The Spankees: Murton [...]

August 26th, 2010 Yokohama BayStars 9 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Lost 1    Last 5: LWWWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Damned BayStars. OK, OK, I’ll admit the they’ve-got-our-number thing is a bit exaggerated, but damn them anyway. Our Boys in the (rather nice) ‘Hood: Aoki Tanaka Takeuchi Whitesell Yuichi Miyamoto Kawabata Kawamoto Yoshinori The Basket-case [...]

August 20th, 2010 Chunichi Dragons 0 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Won 3   Last 5: LLWWW (Nagoya Dome) I like this. After this game, the streak and last five look just like they did after the Swallows’ last sweep of the Dragons, at the start of the ten-game winning streak. Just saying. Tonight was [...]

August 19th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2 Streak: Won 2   Last 5: LLLWW (Mazda Zoom Zoom Stadium Hiroshima) Know what’s awesome? The name of the Carp’s home park. I mean awesome in size, not in the sense of it being anything other than a stupid name for a stadium. Know [...]

August 13th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 9 Hanshin Tigers 6 Streak: Won 10   Last 10: WWWWWWWWWW (Osaka Kyocera Dome) As you can see, the streak continues, tying the 2002 streak at ten wins on the trot. Yes, ten straight wins. First, a multiple choice question. Baseball is: a. A game between two teams of [...]

August 12th, 2010 Yomiuri Giants 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 Streak: Won 9   Last 9: WWWWWWWWW (Jingu Stadium) Tokyo went into this game hoping to extend their eight-game winning streak, a seven-year high, to nine. Here’s how it unfolded. If you think for yourself, like baseball and/or Tokyo, and have some self-respect, your starting [...]

August 8th, 2010 Tokyo Swallows 11 Yokohama BayStars 4 Streak: Won 6   Last 5: WWWWW (Yokohama Stadium) One after another. If I say more, I fear a jinx. For the Swallows: Aoki Tanaka Takeuchi Whitesell Hatakeyama Aikawa Miyamoto Kawabata Barnette For the BayStars: Uchikawa Ishikawa Harper Murata Sledge Castillo Shimozono Hashimoto Ohka Obana is [...]

August 6th, 2010 Tokyo Swallows 16 Yokohama BayStars 4 Streak: Won 4   Last 5: LWWWW (Yokohama Stadium) The BayStars were the last team to beat the Swallows, way back on August 1st, in Iwaki. Yokohama won that series and set some of here at the Tsubamegun to lamenting our relatively poor fortunes against the [...]

July 31st, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Yokohama BayStars 7 Streak: Lost 1   Last 5: WWWWL (Koriyama) It figures, doesn’t it? At least it was quick (2:30) and nearly unseen (10,414 in attendance). Is there any point to any recent BayStars season other than maddeningly smacking our guys around? Here it is, folks: The [...]