An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
With the Central League’s regular program now consigned to the history books, let’s have a look at the individual title winners from this past season, and see how Tokyo’s boys (both new and old) fared: Pitching Wins: Seth Greisinger (Yomiuri) – 17 One of the “ones that got away” from Yakult this last off-season. Despite a slightly [...]
September 10th, 2008 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Hanshin Tigers 4 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: WLWLL (Koshien Stadium) For the second night in a row, the Swallows suffered a sayonara loss to the Tigers, this time on a 9th inning bases loaded walk from Matsuoka to lose a game that they really should have won. Tokyo outhit Hanshin 15 [...]
July 28th, 2008 Hanshin Tigers 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Streak: Won 1. Last 5: LLLLW (Jingu Stadium) From July 11th to the 22nd, Tokyo went 8-2-1. Then they dropped four straight. For whatever reason, we can’t seem to handle our biggest rival, Yomiuri, or our neighbors, Yokohama (yes, the same Yokohama that is at [...]
July 17th, 2008 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Hanshin Tigers 0 Streak: Won 1. Last 5: DWWLW (Koshien Stadium) Tokyo clinched the series versus Hanshin with a crazy ninth-inning win at Koshien stadium. Tokyo starter, Ishikawa (8-6), and Hanshin starter, Vogelsong (2-1), pitched well through eight and seven innings, respectively, with no runs being scored by [...]
