An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
July 31st, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Yokohama BayStars 7 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WWWWL (Koriyama) It figures, doesn’t it? At least it was quick (2:30) and nearly unseen (10,414 in attendance). Is there any point to any recent BayStars season other than maddeningly smacking our guys around? Here it is, folks: The [...]
July 29th, 2010 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 3 Tokyo Swallows 9 Streak: Won 4 Last 5: LWWWW (Jingu Stadium) Tonight started off with a scare, but wound up with Yoshinori earning a complete game win, the good guys notching a fourth consecutive win, taking the series, and remaining undefeated since the All-Star Break. (OK, that’s [...]
July 11th, 2010 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2 Tokyo Swallows 3 Streak: Won 3 Last 5: LLWWW (Jingu Stadium) The Swallows manage to protect a slim lead at Jingu this afternoon. Today’s lineup saw the return of both Aikawa and Miyamoto: Aoki CF Tanaka 2B Iihara RF Whitesell LF Hatakeyama 1B Aikawa C Miyamoto 3B [...]
I’m starting an irregular tradition, although there are better things, even on this site, I could be doing with my time. I’m giving our loyal and friendly readers, which would be you, something to talk about on a day with no game. I’m going to pathetically brag, in the hope that you will one up [...]
Black Sabbath, the spaghetti junction, HP Sauce, a balti and naan, a 13 year old mother pushing her baby around in a pram while chuffing on a Benson and Hedges – these are some things that spring to mind when one thinks of England’s second city, Birmingham. Baseball is absolutely not one of those things, [...]
March 10th, 2009 SoftBank Hawks 10 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Lost 3 Last 5: LWLLL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) The bats were a bit anemic again today. Tokyo managed only six hits, two better than the game yesterday versus Hanshin. The birds got waxed early and often. Tokyo newbie pitcher (read: straight out of [...]
July 29th, 2008 Hanshin Tigers 4 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Lost 1. Last 5: LLLWL (Jingu Stadium) Ryan Vogelsong notched his ninth win for Hanshin as Masanori Ishikawa was charged with his eighth loss for Tokyo in this rain-abbreviated game. Tonight, the Swallows struck first, in a near-mirror image of last night, scoring two [...]
This is a project that needed doing. As I sit here, my beloved Tokyo Yakult Swallows have, once again, begun their predictable, but still disappointing plummet to the depths of Nippon Pro Yakyu‘s Central League. As of this writing, on the night of Thursday, June 5th, 2008, the Swallows are in fifth place with a [...]
