Saturday, July 31st, 2010

April 28th, 2010 Hanshin Tigers 9 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Lost 3   Last 5: LWLLL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Ishikawa took the mound for the birds in an attempt to finally get a win after seeing his record wander to a dismal 0-4 mark to start the season. But he wound up having a [...]

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April 22nd, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Chunichi Dragons 3 Streak: Lost 1   Last 5: LWLDL (Nagoya Dome) The right ingredients were mostly there: another good start from Tony Barnette and 8 hits for the Swallows to the Dragons 6. But the one thing missing was the one thing that has plagued Tokyo for [...]

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April 21st, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Chunichi Dragons 2 Streak: Drawn 1   Last 5: WLWLD (Nagoya Dome) After four hours and ten minutes of toil this one ended up in the Central League’s first stalemate of the new season, with Ishikawa again failing to register his first win of the 2010 campaign. Takada gave [...]

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April 13th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 3 Streak: Lost 3   Last 5: LWLLL (Mazda Stadium) Ouch. That hurt. The Swallows lost this in the bottom of the 10th on a walk-off solo home run by Hiroshima’s Ishihara. Tokyo’s lineup: 1. Iihara LF 2. Tanaka 2B 3. Aoki CF 4. D’Antona [...]

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April 11th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Hanshin Tigers 7 Streak: Lost 2   Last 5: WLWLL (Koshien) Tokyo looked to Muranaka for another strong performance on the mound to help the team avoid losing its second series in a row. 1. Iihara LF 2. Tanaka 2B 3. Aoki CF 4. D’Antona 1B 5. Guiel [...]

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April 8th, 2010 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 4 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 0 Streak: Lost 1   Last 5: WLLWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Tokyo lost its first series of 2010 to the hapless Carp on the back of a dominating pitching performance by Hiroshima youngster, Maeda. Nothing, I repeat–nothing, happened on offense for the birds in this [...]

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April 7th, 2010 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 1 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7 Streak: Won 1   Last 5: WWLLW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) This game was all about Jamie D’Antona racking up RBIs. But before I get to that, let me give you tonight’s lineup: 1. Fukuchi LF 2. Tanaka 2B 3. Aoki CF 4. D’Antona 1B [...]

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Reason to weep: it was reported that several key members of the Swallows are reportedly out of action due to the flu.

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October 6th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 10 Yokohama BayStars 4 Streak: Won 1   Last 5: LLWLW (Yokohama Stadium) For quite a while, it looked as though Yokohama would frustrate Tokyo for the 14th time this year. But in the end, the Swallows extra class told as they put up eight runs in the 8th [...]

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September 28th, 2009 Hanshin Tigers 1 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7 Streak: Won 6    Last 5:  WWWWW (Jingu Stadium) Tokyo starter, Takagi, had another solid outing as Tokyo won a very important contest versus the Hanshin Tigers.

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