August 15th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Chunichi Dragons 2 Streak: Lost 4 Last 5: WLLLL (Nagoya Dome) The birds have been outscored 25-3 in their last two games. The good news is that we didn’t get spanked again this time.
8/14/09 — Chunichi (Away)
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August 14th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Chunichi Dragons 12 Streak: Lost 3 Last 5: LWLLL (Nagoya Dome) The listless Swallows ventured to Nagoya, still reeling from last night’s whupping by the Yokohama BayStars. And to add one more item to the list of things that are not working in Tokyo’s favor, Chunichi has [...]
6/05/09 – Tohoku Rakuten (Home)
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June 5th, 2009 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 9 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LWLLW (Jingu Stadium) After being thoroughly outplayed during their two games in the Seibu Dome the Swallows returned to Jingu, and on the back of yet another quality Tateyama start won easily against the slumping Eagles. For his [...]
6/02/09 – Saitama (Away)
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June 2nd, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Saitama Seibu Lions 7 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WWLWL (Seibu Dome) Masanori Ishikawa’s worst outing of the season, combined with some wasteful Swallows hitting lead to a spanking at the hands of the current Japan Series Champions on Tuesday evening. The Tokyo lineup saw [...]
5/04/09 – Hiroshima (Away)
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3/11/09 — Softbank (home)
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3/4/09 — Hokkaido (away)
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March 4th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 5 Streak: Lost 1 Last 3: WWL (Sapporo Dome) The highlight of this game, from our perspective anyway, was Ishikawa. He started, threw only 41 pitches and retired all 12 batters he faced. Guiel provided the only offense of the game to that point with a [...]
Show me the Money!! 2009 Edition
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With the pre-season schedule now underway, I thought we’d take a look at the results of this year’s salary negotiations and see who’s getting paid what in Tokyo this year (note: all salary figures are given in multiples of a million yen, eg ?40M = ?40,000,000): The Big Boys Norichika Aoki – The [...]
10/10/08 – Yomiuri (Home)
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9/13/08 – Yomiuri (Away)
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