An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
Welcome to the start of the 2013 Tokyo Swallows season! Spring Camp is already well under way, and Dave and Christopher invite a special guest onto the show to talk about the following Swallows-related news (in no particular order): Hatakeyama’s facial hair Iwamura’s return to the nest New uniforms! Last year’s battle with Chunichi in [...]
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 [...]
As predicted at the beginning of the season, your Tokyo Swallows have made it to the postseason, and Dave and Christopher talk a bit about what lies ahead in this most recent edition of the TS Podcast (recorded prior to yesterday’s loss). So instead of looking forward to the next game report (tonight’s game was [...]
November 5th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 1 Chunichi Dragons 5 Series: Chunichi 3-2 Tokyo (Nagoya Dome) The Swallows’ thin starting “rotation” was finally exposed tonight as Akagawa was forced to start on 4 days rest. The Dragons countered with lefty Yudai Kawai. The Swallows elected to continue starting rookie Yamada at shortstop batting leadoff. The rookie [...]
November 3nd, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 3 Chunichi Dragons 1 Series: Chunichi 2-1 Tokyo (Nagoya Dome) With the team already down 2-0 in the series, it goes without saying that tonight’s game was a must win for the Swallows. Amidst much speculation, the Swallows started Ishikawa on 3 days rest against the Dragons’ Chen. But that [...]
November 2nd, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 1 Chunichi Dragons 2 Series: Chunichi 2-0 Tokyo (Nagoya Dome) So this is what it’s come down to. The Swallows are back in Nagoya Dome trying to make up for everything they lost there during the home stretch of the 2011 Central League pennant race. The last time that Tokyo [...]
There’s been plenty of action recently in terms of players being added to, and wiped from, the top team roster. The following players have recently gone up or down. October 29th (First Stage Game 1) Murakawa, Ishikawa and Miwa were activated. Yuichi was deactivated. October 31st (First Stage Game 3) Iihara was activated. Hidaka was [...]
It’s now time to decide who will move on to the 2011 Japan Series. The schedule for the final stage of the Climax Series is set to go a little something like this (scroll down for the Pacific League schedule): Central League 2nd place Tokyo Yakult Swallows vs 1st place Chunichi Dragons All games will [...]
