An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
August 23rd, 2012 Yomiuri Giants 4 Tokyo Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: WLDLL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Well, that’s three hours ten minutes of my life that I’ll never get back. I’ll do you the courtesy of wasting as little of your’s as possible by keeping this one short. Tokyo took the lead in the [...]
October 29th, 2011 Yomiuri Giants 2 Tokyo Swallows 3 Series: Swallows Lead 1-0 (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Tokyo came from behind to down their beloved neighbours off the back of a Tateyama-Muranaka starter’s relay and, thank the lord of your choice, some timely hitting. In a packed and buzzing Jingu it was Tateyama, not Ishikawa as [...]
September 20th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 1 Yomiuri Giants 6 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WDLWL (Tokyo Dome) Tokyo’s last game of the season with Yomiuri was one to forget. But it shouldn’t overshadow the 12W-8L-4D winning record for the year, which represents the Swallows’ first winning season against the brainwashed orange tribe in eleven years. [...]
July 16th, 2011 Yomiuri Giants 6 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WWDWL (Tokyo Dome) Tokyo’s remarkable streak against Yomiuri came to an end in a game that’s best left forgotten. Us: Aoki (CF) Tanaka (2B) Whitesell (1B) Hatakeyama (LF) Balentien (RF) Kawabata (SS) Kawamoto (C) Fujimoto (3B) Yamamoto (P) Them: Sakamoto (SS) Takahashi [...]
July 5th, 2011 Yomiuri Giants 4 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: DWLWW (Shizuoka Kusanagi Stadium) Coco Balentien awoke from his slumping slumber just in time to break a 9th inning tie, and ensured that the Swallows didn’t have to endure yet another draw against Yomiuri. Us: Aoki (CF) Tanaka (2B) [...]
June 28th, 2011 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Yomiuri Giants 1 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LWWLW (Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture) It was a fairytale start for 26 year old rookie Yuki Shichijo as he put on a sparkling performance to win his first game on his pro-debut. And just to make it all the [...]
April 26th, 2011 Yomiuri Giants 1 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7 Streak: Won 2 (Unbeaten in 9) Last 5: WWDWW (Shizuoka Kusanagi Stadium) After bouncing back from an 0 and 3 start to occupy first place in the CL, the Swallows enter a week that will be a litmus test for their credentials of [...]
April 12th, 2011 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Yomiuri Giants 9 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: L (Yamaguchi) Tokyo opened their delayed 2011 campaign with somewhat of a shambles of a performance as they were easily brushed aside by their beloved neighbours. The Swallows’ starting lineup saw debuts for two players, import Wladimir Balentien [...]
September 14th, 2010 Yomiuri Giants 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 2 Last 9: LWWLL (Jingu Stadium) After an unlikely series win in Koshien at the weekend, it was back home to Jingu to host our beloved neighbours and their army of braindead minions. With Nakazawa still out of sorts, it was all [...]
August 31st, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 12 Yomiuri Giants 8 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LWLLW (Kanazawa) After being fairly well beaten in the last two games against the Tigers this weekend, the Swallows took some of the bad taste from their mouths with a win against our other favourite CL brethren. Aoki (CF) Tanaka [...]
