An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
May 18th, 2011 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 0 Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 3 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WWWWL (Sapporo Dome) Tonight’s match-up saw media-darling and Hokkaido ace Yu Darvish take on our boys from Tokyo. The Swallows put the relatively untested youngster Hitoshi Yamamoto, in his third start, up against him. Rangy Swallow-turned-Eagle-turned-Swallow Ryuji [...]
October 11th, 2008 Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 4 Orix Buffaloes 1 (Kyocera Dome) Darvish went the distance in this first game of the best-of-three series between the Fighters and Buffaloes. He gave up one unearned run and clocked 139 pitches. The Buffaloes managed nine hits, and were gifted a wild pitch and two walks, but [...]
