An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
October 15th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 3 Yokohama BayStars 1 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LLLLW (Yokohama Stadium) This one started out on a positive: Aoki, back at the top of the order, made Kuniyoshi serve up seven pitches all over the map before knocking one for a single. He then sat there until Hatakeyama doubled [...]
With the Central League’s regular program now consigned to the history books, let’s have a look at the individual title winners from this past season, and see how Tokyo’s boys (both new and old) fared: Pitching Wins: Seth Greisinger (Yomiuri) – 17 One of the “ones that got away” from Yakult this last off-season. Despite a slightly [...]
July 11th, 2008 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Chunichi Dragons 2 Streak: Won 1. Last 5:WWLLW (Nagoya Dome) This promised to be a good battle of the hurlers as Tokyo’s Ishikawa, coming off a disappointing last outing, faced off against Chunichi’s Kawakami. The first scoring came in the top of the 3rd inning as Chunichi swapped out [...]
