An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
May 29th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 1 Saitama Seibu Lions 10 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: DLWLL (Seibu Dome) Add pinches of shoddy fielding to a large helping of inept control on the mound, and the result is an absolute drubbing at the hands of the Lions out in Saitama. Tokyo’s Lineup: 1. Aoki [...]
June 15th, 2010 Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 10 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WWWWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Tokyo’s longest winning streak of the season came to a screeching halt at the hands of the Hokkaido Fighters who refused to be swept. In fact, they were so adamant about not being [...]
March 5th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 2 Streak: Won 1 Last 4: WWLW (Sapporo Dome) Three Tokyo players had two-hit games, and the pitching staff only gave up a pair of runs in Tokyo’s second half of a two-day stay up in Hokkaido. Impressively, more than 10,000 people turned out for the [...]
With the regular season now entering it’s final month, I’d thought I’d take a look at how the Yakult lineup of the starting eight position players has evolved since opening day. So first, lets take a look at the batting order which started against the Giants on opening day, Friday March 28th 2008: 1 Keizo [...]
September 4th, 2008 Chunichi Dragons 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Streak: Won 5 Last 5:WWWWW (Jingu Stadium) Hats off to Sean Douglass who threw eight innings of impressive, rain-drenched baseball in his third start since joining the team! He fully deserved his first win of the season, giving up only one hit and one walk [...]
