Pitching matchup in decisive game 3 vs Yomiuri

Gen Sueyoshi has a great post, ‘By the Numbers‘, at his site on all of the relevant numbers from this season’s 24 matchups between Tokyo and Yomiuri. By all accounts, it looks like it will be Akagawa pitching for Tokyo and former Tokyo import Dicky Gonzalez throwing for Yomiuri. Gonzalez hasn’t pitched much this season, [...]

Goodbye Dicky

The money sponge that is Dicky Gonzalez

Dicky as a Swallow It seems that former Swallows starter Dicky Gonzalez has signed for the Yomiuri Giants for the coming season. The chunky Puerto Rican has signed a one year contract worth a mere 30 million yen, a huge pay cut from the 120 million he was drawing in each of his last two years [...]

10/10/08 – Yomiuri (Home)

October 10th, 2008 Yomiuri Giants 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Streak: Lost 1  Last 5:DLWWL (Jingu Stadium) Yomiuri, aided by Yokohama’s surprise come-from-behind victory over Hanshin, clinched the pennant at Jingu.

9/22/08 – Chunichi (Away)

September 22nd, 2008 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 0 Chunichi Dragons 7 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5:LWWWL (Nagoya Dome) Tokyo were well and truly tonked at the Nagoya Dome as the Dragons starter Wei-Yin Chen allowed just four hits for the complete game shutout, and the Chunichi batters went to town on Yakult starter Gonzalez. Gonzalez was roughed-up to say the [...]

9/9/08 – Hanshin (Away)

September 9th, 2008 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Hanshin Tigers 3 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WWLWL (Koshien Stadium) An Akihiro Yano sayonara solo homer off Yakult reliever Oshimoto was the difference between the two teams in a tight game at Koshien on Tuesday night. Gonzalez started the game for the birds, and despite giving up three hits and two [...]

9/2/08 – Chunichi (Home)

September 2nd, 2008 Chunichi Dragons 6 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 12 Streak: Won 3 Last 5:LLWWW (Jingu Stadium) Dicky Gonzalez got his first win of the season on seven innings of work, and for the second night in the row the Tokyo starter enjoyed some other-worldly run support from his teammates.

Meet the Starters – the 2008 TYS Rotation (so far…)

As I write this the Swallows are languishing in 5th place in the Central League, and are generally having a torrid time in the Inter League games this year (though things have been looking up a little during the last few days). So let’s have a look at the cast of starting pitchers who have [...]