An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
May 6th, 2013 Chunichi Dragons 3 Tokyo Swallows 7 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LLLWW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) In honor of golden week, both teams decided to make the game as interesting as possible for all in attendance. Chunichi even agreed to let the Birds take home the win in spectacular fashion!!* Tonight saw Matsuoka [...]
April 18th, 2013 Chunichi Dragons 6 Tokyo Swallows 3 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: LLWLL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) To say that the Swallows are slumping right now would be an understatement. The Swallows lost their fourth series in a row in a game which would’ve been funny if we weren’t Swallows fans. Luckily for [...]
April 11th, 2013 Tokyo Swallows 1 Chunichi Dragons 4 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LWLWL (Nagoya Dome) The Swallows lost their second series in a row as they dropped the rubber match against the Dragons. Tonight, the Swallows lost to the 1-2 punch of Daniel Cabrera and Hector Luna. On the Swallows side, it [...]
April 10th, 2013 Tokyo Swallows 4 Chunichi Dragons 2 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LLWLW (Nagoya Dome) Tokyo’s two-man, high-kicking Chorus Line of Yasuhiro Ogawa and Kazuhiro Hatakeyama ruled the day as the Swallows managed to avoid a second consecutive dropped series. Chunichi’s Hector Luna was the only other player to have a [...]
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 [...]
October 14th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 1 Chunichi Dragons 0 Series: Chunichi 1-1 Tokyo (Nagoya Dome) Six innings of shutout pitching by Tateyama, another Balentien longball, plus two innings of perfect relief from Tony led to a crucial victory in a win-or-go-home game down in Nagoya. And with the two teams combining for a total of [...]
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 [...]
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 28th, 2012 Hanshin Tigers 3 Tokyo Swallows 6 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LWWLW (Jingu Stadium) Before getting into the wonderful details of this delightful come-from-behind win over the hapless Tigers, I’d like to take a moment to thoroughly castigate those in the crowd that applauded Kanemoto’s pinch-hit appearance in the ninth inning. [...]
September 14th, 2012 Yokohama BayStars 2 Tokyo Swallows 6 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: DWWLW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) For the first night of the series, the Birds have broken the spell that the DeNA Merlins had on them. Let’s hope that this continues as we need to work some hocus-pocus on the rest of the [...]
