August 28th, 2010 Hanshin Tigers 12 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Streak: Lost 2  Last 5: LLWLL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) The Swallows’ insistence on going with a 6-man rotation costs the team dearly… The Birds’ lineup was the usual, except the starting pitcher. Aoki CF Tanaka 2B Iihara RF Whitesell 1B Hatakeyama LF Aikawa C Miyamoto [...]

August 28th, 2010 Hanshin Tigers 9 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 1   Last 5: WLLWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) What poison can overcome the elation of a thumping of the Tigers? A thumping by the Tigers. This sucked. Good news first: Eulogio De La Cruz is a badass (except at pitching). His warm-up music [...]

August 27th, 2010 Hanshin Tigers 0 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 Streak: Won 1   Last 5: WWLLW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) What balm can soothe the sting of a loss to the BayStars? Turning around the next night to spank the Tigers. The Spankers: Aoki Tanaka Iihara Whitesell Hatakeyama Aikawa Takeuchi Fujimoto Tateyama The Spankees: Murton [...]

August 15th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 Hanshin Tigers 9 Streak: Lost 2   Last 5: WWWLL (Osaka Kyocera Dome) In a game that saw multiple shifts of momentum, the Swallows take the loss after Matsuoka finally breaks down from overuse. Aoki CF Tanaka 2B Iihara RF Whitesell 1B Hatakeyama LF Aikawa C MIyamoto 3B [...]

August 13th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 9 Hanshin Tigers 6 Streak: Won 10   Last 10: WWWWWWWWWW (Osaka Kyocera Dome) As you can see, the streak continues, tying the 2002 streak at ten wins on the trot. Yes, ten straight wins. First, a multiple choice question. Baseball is: a. A game between two teams of [...]

July 18th, 2010 Hanshin Tigers 11 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Streak: Lost 2   Last 5: WWWLL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Yoshinori was his same annoyingly inconsistent self to start things off today. Randy Messenger, on the other hand, looked sharp for Hanshin. He needs to quit that chewing tobacco habit though. Starting lineup: 1. Aoki [...]

July 17th, 2010 Hanshin Tigers 9 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Streak: Lost 1  Last 5: WWWWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) All good things must come to an end, as the Birds ended their season-high 6 game winning streak without putting up too much of a fight against the Hanshin Tigers. The Swallows fielded a somewhat awkward [...]

July 8th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 10 Hanshin Tigers 6 Streak: Won 1  Last 5: WLLLW (Koshien) With D’Antona on the farm team, and Guiel and Whitesell watching from the bench, the Tokyo Swallows looked to avoid a Koshien sweep at the hands of the Hanshin Tigers with Mikinori Katoh on the mound for the [...]

July 7th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Hanshin Tigers 3 Streak: Lost 3  Last 5: WWLLL (Koshien) Tokyo fell to their third straight loss as they again struggled to get their offence working against Hanshin at Koshien. With Whitesell out of action after taking one on the knee the evening prior, it was a case of “as [...]

July 6th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Hanshin Tigers 6 Streak: Lost 2  Last 5: WWWLL (Kurashiki Muscat Stadium) Tokyo lost the opening game of a 3 game series against the Hanshin Tigers. The Birds waste a gritty start by Muranaka, and couldn’t get their offense going against the Tiger’s Jason Standridge. The Swallows tinkered [...]