An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
The 2011 NPB Draft will happen tomorrow evening at the Grand Prince Hotel starting from 17:00. For those of you who are new to the Japanese draft format and are not familiar with how it works, check out the post I wrote last year about the process. I’ll be presenting a few players that may [...]
October 25th, 2011 Hiroshima Carp 1 Tokyo Swallows 2 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LWWLW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) This game very nearly sucked. But in the end, it turned out to be a very satisfactory way to end the regular season. The unimportance of this contest was lost on very few people [...]
October 19th, 2011 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Chunichi Dragons 4 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LLWWL (Nagoya Dome) “It’s over folks,” was how Kozo opened his post after Tokyo’s last loss to Chunichi, six days ago. He was very right. Let us hope that whatever kept the Swallows in the lead for so much of [...]
October 18th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 4 Hanshin Tigers 0 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LLLWW (Koshien) After huffing and puffing for a while, the CL’s most boring team finally clinched their second straight pennant in Yokohama with…..a 3-3 tie. How apt. For a while Tokyo’s championship hopes looked like they may live to see [...]
October 15th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 3 Yokohama BayStars 1 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LLLLW (Yokohama Stadium) This one started out on a positive: Aoki, back at the top of the order, made Kuniyoshi serve up seven pitches all over the map before knocking one for a single. He then sat there until Hatakeyama doubled [...]
October 14th, 2011 Hanshin Tigers 10 Yakult Swallows 1 Streak: Lost 5 Last 5: LLLLL (Meiji Jingu) Tonight it seemed the only way the Swallows would win this game would be if the rain kept on falling and the game would have been called. Unfortunately, after a few rain delays, the game was eventually [...]
October 13th, 2011 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 0 Chunichi Dragons 2 Streak: Lost 4 Last 5: WLLLL (Nagoya Dome) It’s over folks. The Swallows lost 4 straight to the Dragons to fall 4.5 games behind the Dragons and saw the Dragons’ magic number shrink to 2. This game saw the Swallows’ send their only hot [...]
October 12th, 2011 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Chunichi Dragons 4 Streak: Lost 3 Last 5: LWLLL (Nagoya Dome) This was an uneventful, low-hitting game for five and a half innings. Masubuchi and Nelson were even pretty evenly matched in pitch count. Then, in the bottom of the sixth, starting at the top of the [...]
October 11th, 2011 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Chunichi Dragons 3 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: WLWLL (Nagoya Dome) Tokyo’s CL title hopes moved yet further into the distance as they fell to Chunichi once more in Nagoya. Tonight’s win means that the Dragons have now moved 2.5 games ahead of the Swallows and become the first [...]
October 10th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 0 Chunichi Dragons 3 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LWLWL (Nagoya Dome) This was the first game of that oh-so-critical four-game away series that we’ve been looking forward to since early last month. And as you can see, it didn’t start well. Chunichi was able to capitalize when they got [...]
