An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
April 24th, 2012 Chunichi Dragons 1 Tokyo Swallows 4 Streak: Won 4 Last 5: LWWWW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) After the confidence boosting and oh so pleasurable home sweep this last weekend against Yomiuri, Tokyo kept the momentum rolling with a relatively straightforward victory against the reigning CL chuamps. After Tateyama made light work of the first three [...]
April 22nd, 2012 Yomiuri Giants 2 Tokyo Swallows 3 Streak: Won 3 Last 5: WLWWW (Jingu Stadium) Sweep! Sweep! Sweep! Sweep! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeep! Roman finally got his first NPB ‘W’ in his fourth start of the year and second this week. Despite the rain, this was another enjoyable game to watch for the Swallows fans in [...]
April 21st, 2012 Yomiuri Giants 0 Tokyo Swallows 2 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LWLWW (Jingu Stadium) The struggling Giants retooled their lineup, but were no match for a hot Akagawa. A fairly simple and clean win for the Swallows tonight. Akagawa started the game off with 2 strikeouts before allowing a single to Sakamoto. [...]
April 20th, 2012 Yomiuri Giants 1 Tokyo Swallows 2 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WLWLW (Jingu Stadium) Tokyo entered this series having just lost an away series at Koshien, and were looking to get things back on track against the very unbalanced fifth-placed Yomiuri Giants. This game didn’t start well at all for Muranaka and [...]
April 19th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 3 Hanshin Tigers 4 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WWLWL (Koshien Stadium) Ishikawa and the Swallows lose a back-and-forth affair at a windy Koshien. The Swallows struck first in this game in the second. After Kawabata walked to lead off the inning, Miyamoto got career hit number 1987 to put [...]
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 [...]
April 17th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 0 Hanshin Tigers 4 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LLWWL (Hotto Motto Field Kobe) After two good wins against the Carp this last weekend, Tokyo returned to the kind of baseball that saw them lose last week’s series against the Baystars. The impotent bat kind. In fairness to those [...]
April 15th, 2012 Hiroshima Carp 0 Tokyo Swallows 1 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: WLLWW (Matsuyama) The Swallows go 2 for 2 in Matsuyama against Yoyo, I mean, Toyo Hiroshima Carp. After last nights outburst by the Swallows, the bats cooled off this fine Sunday afternoon. Still, thanks in large part to [...]
April 14th, 2012 Hiroshima Carp 1 Tokyo Swallows 10 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WWLLW (Matsuyama) The birds’ first game of the year against the fish was a home-away-from-home game in Matsuyama, a fortunate choice of location given the constant rain that cancelled every other game in the Kanto region. Your Tokyo [...]
April 12th, 2012 Yokohama BayStars 4 Tokyo Swallows 0 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: WWWLL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) One day later, but the result was virtually the same, except no one could blame the weather tonight. The Swallows ended their 3 game set against the BayStars doing what no other team had managed to [...]
