An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
May 17th, 2013 Chiba Lotte Marines 5 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 Last 5: LLLLW Streak: Won 1 (Jingu Stadium) Tonight saw the Birds battle back in superior fashion and make up for some anti-Swallows calls in the 7th. Ishikawa was on the hill for the start of the game but didn’t have his best [...]
April 11th, 2013 Tokyo Swallows 1 Chunichi Dragons 4 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LWLWL (Nagoya Dome) The Swallows lost their second series in a row as they dropped the rubber match against the Dragons. Tonight, the Swallows lost to the 1-2 punch of Daniel Cabrera and Hector Luna. On the Swallows side, it [...]
April 10th, 2013 Tokyo Swallows 4 Chunichi Dragons 2 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LLWLW (Nagoya Dome) Tokyo’s two-man, high-kicking Chorus Line of Yasuhiro Ogawa and Kazuhiro Hatakeyama ruled the day as the Swallows managed to avoid a second consecutive dropped series. Chunichi’s Hector Luna was the only other player to have a [...]
April 6th, 2013 Yokohama BayStars 6 Tokyo Swallows 3 Streak: Lost 3 Last 5: WWLLL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) With a literal storm brewing at Jingu, many didn’t expect the game to go the distance. Unfortunately the game went the distance and the crowd was not emotionally prepared for the final result. The [...]
April 5th, 2013 Yokohama BayStars 2 Tokyo Swallows 1 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: WWWLL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Tokyo returned from the land of Zoom-Zoom to do battle with their neighbors from Kanagawa. Tokyo was looking to keep pace with the 1st place orange-men of the Tokyo Dome. However, they came [...]
March 31st, 2013 Hanshin Tigers 0 Tokyo Swallows 2 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LWW (Jingu Stadium) Your Tokyo Swallows rode another strong pitching performance to a shutout win at Hanshin’s expense. And with Hanshin’s Fujinami putting together a strong performance in his first pro start, there was little room for error given the [...]
Welcome to the start of the 2013 Tokyo Swallows season! Spring Camp is already well under way, and Dave and Christopher invite a special guest onto the show to talk about the following Swallows-related news (in no particular order): Hatakeyama’s facial hair Iwamura’s return to the nest New uniforms! Last year’s battle with Chunichi in [...]
The annual Golden Glove vote have been tabulated, (here are last year’s results) and three-quarters of Tokyo’s infield brought home top prize for their respective positions in the Central League. Leading the charge with the largest margin of victory was Tokyo third baseman, Shinya Miyamoto. His fourth Golden Glove at third base helped him to break [...]
August 31st, 2012 Chunichi Dragons 4 Tokyo Swallows 4 Streak: Drew 2 Last 5: WLWDD (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Poor pitching was seen at the start and end of tonight’s game. Both starters had a rough first few innings and then closers for both teams slipped up in the ninth. Tonight saw both teams don the throw-back uni’s [...]
August 26th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 2 Chunichi Dragons 0 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LLLWW (Nagoya Dome) For the second game in a row, the Tokyo starter pitched a complete game shut-out against the Chubu newspaper smurfs. Both pitchers pitched extremely well today. Fortunately for the Birds, their bats came alive at the right time and did enough [...]
