3/29/09 — Saitama (away)

March 29th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 Saitama Seibu Lions 9 Streak: Lost 1       Last 5: WWWWL (Seibu Dome) Saitama scored six runs off of seven hits in the bottom of the third to build a lead that they would not relinquish. Tokyo starter Hye-cheon Lee would leave the game after that inning having [...]

3/28/09 — Saitama (away)

March 28th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 8 Saitama Seibu Lions 1 Streak: Won 5       Last 5: WWWWW (Seibu Dome) The Swallows followed up their old-fashioned kicking of the Baystars on Thursday with a pretty stern smacking of the Saitama Lions this afternoon. Aoki was in the lineup at 1pm, but was promptly yanked. I don’t [...]

3/26/09 — Yokohama (home)

March 26th, 2009 Yokohama BayStars 1 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 10 Streak: Won 4    Last 5:LWWWW (Jingu Stadium) The birds stomped all over the Stars this afternoon. It wasn’t pretty, and they might as well have called the game after the fifth because nothing really happened after that, save a single in the top of the ninth.

3/24/09 — Yomiuri (home)

March 24th, 2009 Yomiuri Giants 4 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Streak: Won 3  Last 5: WLWWW (Jingu Stadium) Aaron Guiel came up with the late-inning heroics in this one by roping the game winning single to right field with the bases loaded.

3/22/09 — Orix (home)

March 22nd, 2009 Orix Buffaloes  2 Tokyo Swallows 5 Streak: Won 2   Last 5: WWLWW (Jingu Stadium) Ryo Kawashima pitched six decent innings of six hit, two run baseball to earn the win in this wind-blown spring training game. Both runs were surrendered in the fourth off of a blast by our good friend, [...]

3/21/09 — Orix (home)

March 21st, 2009 Orix Buffaloes  6 Tokyo Swallows 13 Streak: Won 1   Last 5: WWWLW (Jingu Stadium) Tokyo scored two runs in the bottom of the second inning to get on the board first, but this game would quickly turn into a bit of a see-saw contest, and a high scoring one at that. [...]

3/20/09 — Hokkaido (home)

March 20th, 2009 Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters  1 Tokyo Yakult Swallows  0 Streak: Lost 1   Last 5: DWWWL (Jingu Stadium) This contest turned out to be a pitching duel from start to finish. Former Tokyo pitcher, Shugo Fujii, started this game for the visiting Fighters, and Tateyama took the mound for the Swallows.