An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
October 31th, 2011 Yomiuri Giants 1 Tokyo Swallows 3 Series: Swallows Win 2-1 (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Based on the comments received in yesterday’s game report, you don’t need to read this report to find out that the Swallows won game 3 of their series against the hated Giants. The raw details of what happened and [...]
Gen Sueyoshi has a great post, ‘By the Numbers‘, at his site on all of the relevant numbers from this season’s 24 matchups between Tokyo and Yomiuri. By all accounts, it looks like it will be Akagawa pitching for Tokyo and former Tokyo import Dicky Gonzalez throwing for Yomiuri. Gonzalez hasn’t pitched much this season, [...]
With only one game left to go in the regular season, hosts David Watkins and Christopher Pellegrini look ahead to the first stage of the playoffs which will be played at Jingu next weekend. After talking briefly about why the Swallows finished second in the Central League, David and Christopher move on to probable pitching [...]
October 19th, 2011 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Chunichi Dragons 4 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LLWWL (Nagoya Dome) “It’s over folks,” was how Kozo opened his post after Tokyo’s last loss to Chunichi, six days ago. He was very right. Let us hope that whatever kept the Swallows in the lead for so much of [...]
October 13th, 2011 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 0 Chunichi Dragons 2 Streak: Lost 4 Last 5: WLLLL (Nagoya Dome) It’s over folks. The Swallows lost 4 straight to the Dragons to fall 4.5 games behind the Dragons and saw the Dragons’ magic number shrink to 2. This game saw the Swallows’ send their only hot [...]
October 7th, 2011 Hiroshima Carp 0 Tokyo Swallows 1 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WLLLW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) After reluctantly relinquishing their lead in the CL standings, the Swallows return home to squeak out a win. In tonight’s game, I was interested in seeing how Akagawa would do after his no decision against Yokohama last [...]
October 1st, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 3 Yokohama BayStars 10 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: WWWLL (Yokohama Stadium) Things were not pretty as the Swallows’ young bullpen arms were exposed to the BayStars’ bats. Akagawa seemed to have a handle of things in the early going. Even the solo homerun he gave up to Tsutsugo [...]
September 25th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 6 Chunichi Dragons 1 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LLLLW (Nagoya Dome) After losing four straight, and three in a row to the second place Chunichi Dragons, the birds saw their lead at the top of the Central shrink to a paltry one-and-a-half games. The big question, of course, was [...]
September 19th, 2011 Yokohama BayStars 1 Tokyo Swallows 3 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WWTLW (Jingu Stadium) Tokyo are the first team in the Central League to 60 wins. After a bit of a wobble last night, the birds looked to take advantage of Yokohama’s 6′ 5″ (195 cm) second year right-hander, Kuniyoshi, who has [...]
September 13th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 4 Hiroshima Carp 1 Streak: Won 7 Last 5: WWWWW (Mazda Zoooooom Zooooooom Stadium) After dispatching the hoodoo that Hanshin had held over them in 2011 with that ultra-satisfying sweep this last weekend, the first series of this new week presented another opportunity to turn the tables on a [...]
