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 [...]
5/22/12 – Chiba (Away) [Game Cancelled]
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5/20/12 – Orix (Home)
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May 20th, 2012 Orix Buffaloes 4 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: LWLLL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) The run production woes continue. What do you need to know? After Wednesday’s blowout victory over 2011 Japan Series champion Fukuoka, the birds are a bit constipated run-wise. Not fun. Tokyo got off on the wrong [...]
5/17/12 – Fukuoka (Home)
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May 17th, 2012 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 9 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WDLWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Payback’s a bitch! After last night’s unreal drubbing of the Hawks, the boys from Fukuoka reciprocated in game 2. Nakamura gets the start in place of Aikawa tonight. I’m guessing that Nakamura will be [...]
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 [...]
5/10/12 – Chunichi (Away)
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May 10th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 3 Chunichi Dragons 1 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WLLLW (Nagoya Dome) The Swallows’ bats finally come alive in the eighth to snap the team’s losing streak. The lineup got a bit of a tweak after Kawbata’s hip injury, and his subsequent removal from the active roster earlier today left [...]
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 [...]
5/8/12 – Chunichi (Away)
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May 8th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 0 Chunichi Dragons 1 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: LWWLL (Toyohashi Stadium) Chunichi leapfrogged Tokyo back up to the top of the CL as they edged an ultra-tight affair in Aichi. Dragons’ starter Yamai was attempting his third start of the season against the Swallows, after racking up two losses and an [...]
5/6/12 – Hiroshima (Home)
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May 6th, 2012 Hiroshima Carp 6 Tokyo Swallows 0 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WLWWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) This is the same pitching duel that we saw early last week in the rain in Hiroshima, Tokyo’s Shohei Tateyama taking on Hiroshima’s Kenta Maeda. It was Maeda’s first game of 2012 pitching at Jingu Stadium, and [...]
