October 19th, 2009

Tokyo Swallows 4

Chunichi Dragons 7

Series: Chunichi 2-1 Tokyo
(Nagoya Dome)
Chunichi was definitely the better team today, but they should never forget that they had the flu and a little bit of Takada on their side. Either way, the season came to an end for the Swallows while the Dragons now inherit the unenviable task [...]

October 18th, 2009

Tokyo Swallows 2

Chunichi Dragons 3

Series: Chunichi 1-1 Tokyo
(Nagoya Dome)
The Dragons leveled the series with a come-from-behind win and made sure that both team’s season will survive at least one more day.

October 17th, 2009

Tokyo Swallows 3
Chunichi Dragons 2

Series: Chunichi 0-1 Tokyo
(Nagoya Dome)
Game one of the 2009 Central League Climax Series kicked off in Nagoya with Chen on the mound for the home team, and Ishikawa taking the reigns for the visiting Tokyo Swallows.
And Tokyo came up with the goods versus a very sharp Chen.

October 11th, 2009

Chunichi Dragons 3

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4

Streak: Won 5    Last 5: WWWWW
(Jingu Stadium)
With the Swallows clinching 3rd and a Climax Series place on Friday, this preview matchup between the two teams that will be contesting the first round of the post-season was meant to be a nice quiet game, with both teams having little [...]

The current key series with the ever-lovable (cough) Hanshin Tigers is proving to be a costly one, even if Tokyo do manage to take tonight’s game to win the series.

September 13th, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2

Chunichi Dragons 7

Streak: Lost 8    Last 5: LLLLL
(Nagoya Dome)
The Swallows long slide to fifth place continues. Hanshin’s win over Yokohama means that Dave was right, and the birds now find themselves in fourth place at the end of the weekend.

September 12th, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2

Chunichi Dragons 4

Streak: Lost 7    Last 5: LLLLL
(Nagoya Dome)
And another series bites the dust.

September 11th, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1

Chunichi Dragons 3

Streak: Lost 6    Last 5: LLLLL
(Nagoya Dome)
The reeling Tokyo Swallows traveled to Nagoya to take on the slightly uninspiring (recently) Dragons after dropping three in a row against the Carp. To sweeten the deal a little (for Tokyo), Ochiai gave old guy Yamamoto his fourth start of [...]

August 30th, 2009

Chunichi Dragons X

Tokyo Yakult Swallows X

Streak: Lost 4    Last 5: WLLLL
(Jingu Stadium)
Riding its most recent four game losing streak, the birds looked to salvage a little pride and win one game at home before starting a six game road trip on Tuesday. However, this game was called due to rain after the [...]

August 29th, 2009

Chunichi Dragons 5

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3

Streak: Lost 4    Last 5: WLLLL
(Jingu Stadium)
Yoshinori lasted eight innings, and the game went an extra frame before it was decided, but in the end it was another game for the ‘Loss’ column.