An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
A commemorative Aoki exhibition has been added to the festivities for this year’s Fan Appreciation Day. Housed in the 3rd base camera well, the artifacts on display will include assorted awards such as a Best Nine trophy and memorabilia from the 2009 WBC. The Aoki exhibit is in addition to all of the other stuff [...]
Get your calendar ready. NPB posted a preliminary schedule recently, and it looks like the Swallows will begin the 2012 season with a three-game away series at Tokyo Dome against crosstown rival, Yomiuri. That series will be played the weekend of March 30th through April 1st. No word on start times for any of the [...]
In addition to Dave’s game report published on Tsubamegun last night, you can get some additional commentary from a few other reputable sources. Jason Coskrey, writer for the Japan Times, summarized game one of the Central League Climax Series First Stage thusly: “The Tokyo Yakult Swallows came out on top in their season series against [...]
We thought this well-timed feature would interest the Tsubamegun. The Asahi Shimbun‘s Rob Smaal chatted with our own Christopher Pellegrini and snapped a photo of him with our dear friends, Messrs. Sugimoto and Nakagawa (without whom, we wouldn’t be on course to be buried in our regular seats). Enjoy! See you at the game.
September 10th, 2011 Hanshin Tigers 2 Tokyo Swallows 6 Streak: Won 5 Last 5: WWWWW (Jingu) Tonight, the Swallows proved to themselves that Yasutomo Kubo and the Hanshin Tigers are not unbeatable boogiemen. The Swallows were facing Kubo who had a 9 game winning streak against the Swallows dating back to September of 2009. In [...]
October 10, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 6 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WLWWL (Jingu Stadium) This is the way the season ends Not with a bang but a whimper. With apologies to to T.S. Eliot, that’s the way things went. While Chiba notched their second close win over Saitama to advance [...]
September 20th, 2010 Chunichi Dragons 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LLWLW (Meiji Jingu) A series win against the first-place team? We’ll take it. This one was fairly close all the way. Not quite tit-for-tat, but close enough. Eight hits each, the scoring close together – you get the idea. [...]
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 12th, 2010 Yomiuri Giants 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 Streak: Won 9 Last 9: WWWWWWWWW (Jingu Stadium) Tokyo went into this game hoping to extend their eight-game winning streak, a seven-year high, to nine. Here’s how it unfolded. If you think for yourself, like baseball and/or Tokyo, and have some self-respect, your starting [...]
