August 22nd, 2010 Chunichi Dragons 2 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WWWLW (Nagoya Dome) Today’s rubber match against the Dragons seemed to be following the same script as last night’s game, with the Birds taking the early lead and giving it up in one bad inning. However, today the Swallows [...]
August 21st, 2010 Chunichi Dragons 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LWWWL (Nagoya Dome) With a .500 record on the line, Nakazawa and the Swallows aren’t able to take home the win in a tough luck loss to the Dragons. The Swallows started their usual lineup of: Aoki CF Tanaka [...]
August 20th, 2010 Chunichi Dragons 0 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Won 3 Last 5: LLWWW (Nagoya Dome) I like this. After this game, the streak and last five look just like they did after the Swallows’ last sweep of the Dragons, at the start of the ten-game winning streak. Just saying. Tonight was [...]
August 5th, 2010 Chunichi Dragons 0 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Streak: Won 3 Last 5: LLWWW (Jingu Stadium) Well, the Tokyo Swallows swept the Chunichi Dragons at Jingu. With Yoshinori on the mound. How about that! Tonite’s lineup: 1. Aoki CF 2. Fukuchi LF 3. Tanaka 2B 4. Whitesell 1B 5. Hatakeyama 3B 6. [...]
August 4th, 2010 Chunichi Dragons 2 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: WLLWW (Jingu Stadium) Lord, we stranded a lot of runners in this game. But so did the Dragons. I guess I should just be happy that we have runners to worry about at all. And the fact that we [...]
August 3rd, 2010 Chunichi Dragons 2 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WWLLW (Jingu Stadium) Aside from a little offense in the first, the birds were dominated at the plate from start to finish, but they still managed to pull out an important win against the third-place Dragons. Tonite’s lineup: 1. [...]
July 15th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 9 Chunichi Dragons 4 Streak: Won 5 Last 5: WWWWW (Nagoya Dome) The Swallows managed to put the finishing touches on their third five-game winning streak of the season (all of them in the post-Takada era) while taking full advantage of every opportunity given to them. Tonight’s lineup: [...]
July 14th, 2010 Chunichi Dragons 1 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Streak: Won 4 Last 5: LWWWW (Nagoya Dome) A quality seven innings from Kyohei Muranaka laid the foundations for what initially looked like would be a straightforward win in Nagoya. Only an almighty wobble from closer Lim in the bottom of the 9th threatened [...]
July 13th, 2010 Chunichi Dragons – Tokyo Yakult Swallows – Streak: Won 3 Last 5: LLWWW (Gifu Stadium) This game was called on account of rain. Game two of this series is scheduled for tomorrow evening at the Nagoya Dome. This marks the second series in a row in which the opening game has [...]
July 4th, 2010 Chunichi Dragons 8 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WWWWL (Akita Komachi Stadium) Don’t let the article image fool you! The Swallows fail to extend their winning streak in a very sloppy game against the Chunichi Dragons. Aoki did manage to collect career hit #1000, but aside from [...]
