September 1st, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Yomiuri Giants 3 Streak: Drew 1   Last 5: WLLWD (Tomiyama) After finishing out a very respectable August with an 18-8 record, by far the best W-L tally in the Central League, the birds began September with a draw. Lineup: 1. Aoki CF 2. Tanaka 2B 3. Iihara [...]

August 31st, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 12 Yomiuri Giants 8 Streak: Won 1   Last 5: LWLLW (Kanazawa) After being fairly well beaten in the last two games against the Tigers this weekend, the Swallows took some of the bad taste from their mouths with a win against our other favourite CL brethren. Aoki (CF) Tanaka [...]

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 26th, 2010 Yokohama BayStars 9 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Lost 1    Last 5: LWWWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Damned BayStars. OK, OK, I’ll admit the they’ve-got-our-number thing is a bit exaggerated, but damn them anyway. Our Boys in the (rather nice) ‘Hood: Aoki Tanaka Takeuchi Whitesell Yuichi Miyamoto Kawabata Kawamoto Yoshinori The Basket-case [...]

August 25th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7 Yokohama BayStars 6 Streak: Won 3    Last 5: WLWWW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Despite a late wobble, the Swallows continued their journey into positive territory with another win over the Baystars. Tokyo are now just the third team in history to recover from being 19 games or more [...]

August 24th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 13 Yokohama BayStars 5 Streak: Won 2    Last 5: WWLWW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) After three exceedingly tight games in Nagoya this last weekend, Tokyo unloaded on the omni-shambles that is the Yokohama Baystars as they saw their record finally return to some semblance of respectability. So come one, come all, [...]

August 19th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2 Streak: Won 2   Last 5: LLLWW (Mazda Zoom Zoom Stadium Hiroshima) Know what’s awesome? The name of the Carp’s home park. I mean awesome in size, not in the sense of it being anything other than a stupid name for a stadium. Know [...]

August 18th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 14 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 5 Streak: Won 1   Last 5: WLLLW (Mazda Stadium) Tokyo got back on track as their bats feasted on Hiroshima pitching in a 21 hit mauling of the Carp. That combined with Ishikawa managing to give the bullpen a much needed night off by [...]

August 17th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2 Streak: Lost 3   Last 5: WWLLL (Mazda Stadium) Tokyo travelled to Hiroshima looking to get back on the winning trail after losing a tight series in Osaka this last weekend. But on the losing path they would remain after losing another tight game, [...]