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 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 [...]
September 28th, 2012 Hanshin Tigers 3 Tokyo Swallows 6 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LWWLW (Jingu Stadium) Before getting into the wonderful details of this delightful come-from-behind win over the hapless Tigers, I’d like to take a moment to thoroughly castigate those in the crowd that applauded Kanemoto’s pinch-hit appearance in the ninth inning. [...]
September 22nd, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 9 Yomiuri Giants 3 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WWWLW (Tokyo Dome) This game, played less than 24 hours after the Giants clinched the pennants was a pretty good barometer of which players had too much victory champagne last night. (I think the title goes to Toshiya Sugiuchi.) Meanwhile Ishikawa [...]
September 4th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 1 Yokohama BayStars 2 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: DDWWL (Yokohama Stadium) Nothing as predictable as losing to the BayStars to bring a nice little run to an end. After three winning series against Chunichi (twice) and Hiroshima, Miura and his cellar-dwelling Yokohama chums shut down the Swallows to hand [...]
August 21st, 2012 Yomiuri Giants 6 Tokyo Swallows 6 Streak: Drawn 1 Last 5: LLWLD (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Tokyo showed a lot of fight as they battled to a nine inning tie against that other team from across town, and while they couldn’t quite come away with a win, more of the same fight will be needed [...]
July 25th, 2012 Hiroshima Carp 1 Tokyo Swallows 1 Streak: Drawn 1 Last 5: WLLLD (Meiji Jingu Stadium) These two teams were in quite different places entering the all-star break. The Swallows were suffering from the chronic inconsistency that has plagued them for long spells in 2012, going 5W-7L-1D in July prior to the [...]
July 12th, 2012 Yokohama BayStars 6 Tokyo Swallows 6 Streak: Tied 1 Last 5: LLLWD (Meiji Jingu Stadium) After winning the previous night’s game on a grand slam, the Swallows looked like they overcame an early grand slam by the BayStars before giving the game away in the ninth for a tie. Although ultimately both [...]
Something for you to read while sorting out your statistical support. Tokyo just ended a rain-shortened week that started nicely and ended with a whimper. Some of that whimper is likely attributable to the fact that Milledge was forced to sit out most of the Hiroshima series last weekend. But before we get into that, [...]
June 24rd, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 3 Yomiuri Giants 3 Streak: Tied 1 Last 5: WLWLT (Tokyo Dome) The Swallows held leads twice in the game only to give them back, and ended with a disappointing 1-1-1 record against the Giants in the away series. Ishikawa started the game for the Swallows. He did a relatively [...]
