An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
June 24th 2010 Yomiuri Giants 4 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LWLWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Tokyo couldn’t pull off the series win after starter Nakazawa fell victim to the long ball as the Swallows lost to their beloved neighbours. Aoki (CF) Fukuchi (2B) Tanaka (2B) D’Antona (1B) Ihara (RF) Aikawa [...]
June 22nd, 2010 Yomiuri Giants 5 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WLLWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Yomiuri brought their brand of thoroughly unlikeable baseball and mentally challenged fans to Jingu for the first time this season. And as they more often than not tend to do, they left with a win. Wonderful. [...]
April 17th, 2010 Yomiuri Giants 6 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LLLWL (Matsuyama) This was a game that was closely contested for six innings, but ultimately things got away from Tokyo in a costly 7th as they were soundly beaten by Yomiuri in a “home” game in Shikoku. The starting [...]
March 28th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Yomiuri Giants 2 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LWW (Tokyo Dome) Do you smell that? It’s the smell of optimism. The night after Yoshinori pitched a superb 8 innings to land Tokyo their first win of the year 2010, Muranaka put in arguably an even better performance to give [...]
March 27th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 10 Yomiuri Giants 5 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LW (Tokyo Dome) Tokyo’s bats finally exploded into life and Yoshinori pitched a gem as the Swallows ran out easy winners in the home of their beloved neighbours. Yoshinori pitched 8 superb innings, tossing a career high 135 pitches, [...]
March 26th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Yomiuri Giants 4 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: L (Tokyo Dome) In recent times the Swallows rarely (make that almost never) win at Tokyo Dome. Under Takada more-so than ever. For the Swallows, a trip to the stain dome offers nothing but a sense of foreboding, stained underwear and ultimate disappointment at the inevitable +1 in the [...]
September 18th, 2009 Yomiuri Giants 10 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LLWWL (Jingu Stadium) After two long overdue victories on the trot, normal service was resumed tonight as the team did what they nearly always do when facing their local neighbours, they yet again rolled over and became Yomiuri’s bitches.
September 5th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 0 Yomiuri Giants 7 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LLWDL (Tokyo Dome) Oshimoto made his first start in four years as he attempted to help out the ailing Yakult rotation, and he did very well indeed, though his hard work was undone by the patched-up bullpen. He also [...]
