Well what a difference a day makes. Korea, wounded by their trouncing at the hands of Japan on Saturday evening, took out their frustrations on China on Sunday. They eliminated the Chinese from the competition with a 14-0 demolition, called after 7 due to the mercy rule. The Koreans were aided by some appalling fielding [...]
WBC: Japan 14, Korea 2
March 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Well, where do I start? Let’s start with the afternoon game, which saw China shock Taipei 4-1 to send Terry Collins’ Chinese team through to Sunday’s game to face the loser of the big one, Japan vs Korea. Taipei were never really in the game and have looked listless during their two outings, scoring just [...]
Tokyo Swallows in the World Baseball Classic
February 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The World Baseball Classic (WBC) starts next week, and we’re trying to get enough work done so that we don’t lose our jobs because we’re at the ballpark for several days straight. Below we list three players, both present and past, that you should be able to watch play next week if you can get [...]
Akinori Iwamura Career Stats
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Iwamura on Fire, but Tampa Drops First Game to Philadelphia
October 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Akinori Iwamura, second baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays (and former Tokyo Swallows third baseman), went three-for-four with an RBI double in the first game of the 2008 World Series. But it wasn’t enough as the visiting Phillies took the first game of the series, 3-2.
Japanese for Rays Fans: ????Phillies!
October 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Warning: This post is just throwing a bone to the folks who’ve stumbled across our site looking for a few kanji. (Who knows? Maybe they’ll be back.) It has nothing to do with baseball and won’t tell you anything you don’t know if you know very basic Japanese. There is, though, a chance for you [...]
Iwamura and Rays march on to the World Series
October 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Ex-Swallow Akinori Iwamura will become the first former Yakult player to grace a MLB world series as his Tampa Bay Rays beat the Boston Red Sox in a thrilling ALCS in seven games. Akinori made the last out of the game, fielding a grounder from Jed Lowrie and making the force out at second to start scenes of [...]
Left-handed Baseball Players Have Advantage
July 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A brief article on the Washington University in Saint Louis website discusses how left-handed pitchers and hitters have a distinct advantage in the game of baseball. This is probably not surprising news to most readers of this site, but the math has been done, and despite roughly 90% of the adult population being right-handed, about [...]
