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Reason to weep: it was reported that several key members of the Swallows are reportedly out of action due to the flu.
Posted by Christopher Pellegrini on Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Filed under 2009 Season, The Team · Tagged Climax Series, first team, Hiromitsu Takagi, influenza, the flu, Tokyo Swallows, Yoshiyuki Noguchi, Yuki
The regular season ended on Monday when Tokyo came from behind to beat Yomiuri, and the Swallows’ resulting 71-72-1 record earned them praise for a modest improvement over last year and the team’s first ever advancement to the Climax Series. The team’s solid play at the end of 2009 was a refreshing bookend to a [...]
Posted by Christopher Pellegrini on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Filed under 2009 Season, The Team · Tagged 2009 Season, ??, ???????????, Central League, Climax Series, Japanese Professional Baseball, Kazuki Fukuchi, League Leaders, most steals, most wins, Norichika Aoki, NPB, OBP, on-ba, on-base percentage, Pro Yakyu, Shohei Tateyama, Tokyo Swallows
October 16th, 2009 Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 4 Tohoku Rakuten Eagles 11 Best of 3 Series: Fukoka 0 – 1 Tohoku (Kleenex Stadium) The Eagles absolutely destroyed the visiting Hawks in the first game of what could be an abbreviated series up in Sendai.
Posted by Christopher Pellegrini on Friday, October 16, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Filed under 2009 Season, Playoffs 2009 · Tagged ??, Climax Series, First Stage, Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, Hisashi Iwakuma, Japanese Professional Baseball, NPB, Pacific League, Pro Yakyu, Stage One, Tohoku Rakuten Eagles, Toshiya Sugiuchi
So here we are: half a game out of third place (one game ahead of fifth), and 15 games remaining in the 2009 regular season. The tears-inducing freefall of the last eight weeks notwithstanding, the birds are still in the playoff picture due to the blanket of mediocrity covering every team in the Central League, [...]
Trans-Pacific Radio just published a podcast which reviews the 2008 baseball season all the way through the Japan Series which was eventually won by the Saitama Seibu Lions. Click here to listen to the podcast.
Posted by Christopher Pellegrini on Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Filed under 2008 Season, Media · Tagged 2008 Season, ??, baseball, Central League, Chiba Lotte Marines, chunichi dragons, Climax Series, Hanshin Tigers, Hiroshima Carp, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, Japan Series, Japanese baseball, Japanese Professional Baseball, NPB, orix buffaloes, Pacific League, Pro Yakyu, Saitama Seibu Lions, Tokyo Swallows, Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Yokohama Baystars, Yomiuri Giants
October 23rd, 2008 Chunichi Dragons 2 Yomiuri Giants 11 (Tokyo Dome) That hurt. Yomiuri regained its swagger tonight and walked all over Chunichi’s pitching on way to an 11-2 rout of the defending Japan Series champions.
Posted by Christopher Pellegrini on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Filed under 2008 Season, Results Archive · Tagged Alex Ramirez, Central League, chunichi dragons, Climax Series, Japanese Professional Baseball, Kenta Asakura, Kouji Uehara, Michihiro Ogasawara, NPB, Second Stage, yakyu, Yomiuri Giants
October 22nd, 2008 Chunichi Dragons 4 Yomiuri Giants 3 (Tokyo Dome) Chunichi came up with some clutch play to level this series at one game apiece.* Shockingly, it took Yomiuri starter, Seth Greisinger, 101 pitches to get through four and one-third innings during which he gave up three runs (two earned) off of five hits. [...]
Posted by Christopher Pellegrini on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Filed under 2008 Season, Results Archive · Tagged Byeong-gyu Lee, Central League, chunichi dragons, Climax Series, Hitoki Iwase, Japanese Professional Baseball, Kazuhiro Wada, Marc Kroon, Masa Yamamoto, NPB, Second Stage, Seth Greisinger, Tokyo Dome, Tyrone Woods, yakyu, Yomiuri Giants
October 22nd, 2008 Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 0 Saitama Seibu Lions 9 (Seibu Dome) The Saitama Seibu Lions employed an old-fashioned ass-whuppin’ tonight en route to advancing to the Japan Series versus the winner of the Chunichi-Yomiuri series that is currently locked at 1-1. The name of the night was Hideaki Wakui (2-0, 0.60) who [...]
Posted by Christopher Pellegrini on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Filed under 2008 Season, Results Archive · Tagged Climax Series, Hideaki Wakui, Hiroyuki Nakajima, Japanese Professional Baseball, NPB, Pacific League, Pacific League Champions, Ryan Glynn, Second Stage, Taketoshi Gotou, Takeya Nakamura, Takumi Kuriyama, yakyu, Yoshihito Ishii
October 21st, 2008 Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 4 Saitama Seibu Lions 9 (Seibu Dome) Former Tokyo Swallows ace, Kazuhisa Ishii (1.29 playoff ERA), pitched a very strong seven innings for the home team in his first postseason appearance in a Lions uniform. He gave up three runs, one of them earned, off of five hits [...]
Posted by Christopher Pellegrini on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Filed under 2008 Season, Results Archive · Tagged Brian Sweeney, Climax Series, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, Japanese Professional Baseball, Kazuhisa Ishii, NPB, Pacific League, Saitama Seibu Lions, Second Stage, Shougo Akada, yakyu, Yoshihito Ishii
October 20th, 2008 Chunichi Dragons 2 Hanshin Tigers 0 (Kyocera Dome) A 9th inning Tyrone Woods two-run home run off Hanshin closer Fujikawa was the difference between the two teams on Monday night, as Chunichi advanced to the Climax Series 2nd Stage.