May 30th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Orix Buffaloes 3 Streak: Lost 1   Last 5: LLDWL (Skymark Stadium) Tokyo ended a 10-game winless skid last night when the bats finally came alive and Ishikawa got his long-awaited first win of the season. But today saw the team revert back to regularly scheduled programming. This [...]

May 29th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 11 Orix Buffaloes 4 Streak: Won 1   Last 5: LLLLW (Kyocera Dome) This was a very good evening for Tokyo indeed. They won their first game of the post-Takada era as their bats exploded into life to end their rotten losing streak. Plus Masanori Ishikawa finally got his [...]

May 13th, 2010 Orix Buffaloes 9 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 2   Last 5: LLWLL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Given the paucity of runs generated by the Swallows offence of late, the main way for the birds to stand a chance of winning games is for their pitching to be watertight. Tonight was not [...]

May 12th, 2010 Orix Buffaloes 2 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Streak: Lost 1   Last 5: LLLWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Any hopes for a change in Tokyo’s fortunes with a change in opposition took a hit as they lost their first game of this year’s Interleague schedule to Orix. It was a performance pretty typical [...]

Tomorrow, weather permitting, the 6 Central League teams will play host to the 6 Pacific League teams, kicking off 5 weeks of Interleague play. This post will hopefully give you some information you will find useful.

June 14th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 14 Orix Buffaloes 10 Streak: Won 3   Last 5: WLWWW (Kyocera Dome) After its low-scoring win over Orix yesterday, Tokyo looked to complete the sweep Sunday afternoon. Ishikawa (6-3) took the mound for Tokyo, and Hirano (2-2) got the start for the Buffs. Orix has won only one [...]

June 13th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Orix Buffaloes 1 Streak: Won 2   Last 5: LWLWW (Kyocera Dome) After finally getting a win against one of NPB’s surprise stories of the year, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, Tokyo made it halfway home before having to stop off in Osaka to finish up their four-game, mid-season [...]

May 28th, 2009 Orix Buffaloes  0 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Streak: Won 2   Last 5: LLLWW (Jingu Stadium) Seven battling innings from Shohei Tateyama combined with some timely hitting carried Tokyo to victory in rainswept conditions on Thurday evening. It rained continuously throughout the game, with conditions becoming more and more difficult as the [...]

May 27th, 2009 Orix Buffaloes  4 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Streak: Won 1   Last 5: WLLLW (Jingu Stadium) The Swallows’ North American contingent of D’Antona and Guiel batted in four of the five Tokyo runs as Yakult’s streak of losses was halted at three. Yoshinori took the mound to start for the birds and [...]

Trans-Pacific Radio has just posted a short podcast previewing a few of the ins and outs, at least where personnel changes are concerned, of the off-season for the six teams in the Pacific League. You can listen to the podcast on your computer by going here.