An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
The annual Golden Glove vote have been tabulated, (here are last year’s results) and three-quarters of Tokyo’s infield brought home top prize for their respective positions in the Central League. Leading the charge with the largest margin of victory was Tokyo third baseman, Shinya Miyamoto. His fourth Golden Glove at third base helped him to break [...]
Last month, on the 25th, suits from all the major teams gathered in a hotel ballroom to draw/pick the negotiation rights to the next generation of NPB players. The Swallows came into the night vowing to pick RHP Shintaro Fujinami from Osaka Toin High School. We here at Tsubamegun are so focused on pro ball [...]
October 15th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 1 Chunichi Dragons 0 Series: Chunichi 2-1 Tokyo (Chunichi wins the series) (Nagoya Dome) And so it goes… The Swallows season, fairly or unfairly, ended on one pitch. A bases-loaded one-out 3-1 pitch by our best reliever to their best power hitter, who was 0-for-8 in the series, ended up [...]
vs. Climax Series Preview The Swallows are about to open their playoff journey by traveling down to Nagoya to play a best-of-3 series against the Chunichi Dragons in the Nagoya Dome. We’ll make a comprehensive comparison of both teams and see how we stack up to our Nagoya counterparts. For American baseball fans joining us [...]
We still have a lot (hopefully) of playoff baseball left ahead of us, but it’s never too early to start thinking about how to improve the team moving ahead. One of the most obvious points of interest is the list of players that have recently been granted their outright release by the teams that they [...]
October 6th, 2012 Hiroshima Carp 4 Tokyo Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WLWWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) The stretch of tune up games continued tonight in Jingu as the Swallows faced the Carp. Earlier in the day news hit that Ryuji Miyade would be hanging up his cleats at the conclusion of this [...]
October 4th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 4 Hiroshima Carp 0 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LWWLW (Mazda Stadium) With the season winding down, the Carp and Swallows met for their final Mazda Stadium game of the 2012 season. With their post-season fate already sealed the Swallows came in to the game looking to extend personal [...]
October 3rd, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 4 Yokohama BayStars 7 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WLWWL (Yokohama Stadium) Another disappointing loss to the BayStars in a rain-shortened game in which the Swallows outhit their hosts 9-5, but failed to bring men home. This brings the record to 13-10-1. Akagawa got off tor a rough start, giving [...]
September 29th, 2012 Chunichi Dragons 4 Tokyo Swallows 0 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WWLWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) The Swallows are going to the Climax Series!!! (Because the Carp lost to the Tigers 2-0.) What the Swallows weren’t able to do was strike fear in the hearts of their first round opponents by beating them [...]
September 27th, 2012 Hanshin Tigers 12 Tokyo Swallows 0 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WLWWL (Jingu Stadium) The Swallows suffered their worst defeat of the season tonight, losing 12-0 to the Tigers. Like our recent wins, this loss was a team effort with lapses coming from all phases of the game. In an [...]
