An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
Hopefully this won’t have to be a regular feature, but with a lot of key injuries recently it seemed like a good idea to provide a summary of the Swallows’ key player injuries. Shohei Tateyama: The biggest injury bombshell came this morning as Tateyama held a press conference to announce that he was going to [...]
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 [...]
October 1st, 2012 Yomiuri Giants 0 Tokyo Swallows 5 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WLWLW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Tokyo finished out its regular season schedule against crosstown rival, Yomiuri, in some style with a rather uneventful win over the 2012 Central League champs. The win brought Tokyo’s regular season record against the Giants to [...]
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. [...]
August 18th, 2012 Hanshin Tigers 0 Tokyo Swallows 1 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WLLLW (Jingu Stadium) Tateyama pitched a clutch game to halt the Swallows’ losing streak, and the offense did just enough to squeak by the Tigers. The Swallows faithful were greeted with yet another injury report tonight. Aikawa was diagnosed with [...]
Holy crap. Is July really here already? Here’s something to read while treading cautiously. We just witnessed a week of starting pitching that was as consistently poor as we’ve seen all year. Tateyama had arguably the best start of the week, giving up four earned runs off of 11 hits in six and two-thirds innings [...]
Welcome back, Swallowers. Things are still not well, much like last week. But here’s something for you to read while attempting to assign blame. Swallows of the Week Week 8 Ryoji Aikawa (C), Lastings Milledge (OF), and Orlando Roman (P) were the three top performers from week eight, and 21 people took the time to [...]
Things are not great right now, Swallowers. Here’s something for you to read while finding an alternate use for your bat. Swallow of the Week Week 7 Possibly due to how late I got the last snapshot up on the site, not too many people had a chance to vote. Only 14 folks submitted a [...]
Spring camp started for the top team in Okinawa today. Here’s a list of the players that were invited. The Swallows’ Japanese website has a handy schedule that will give you a light peak into what’s ahead for the team. The top team camp has only four officially-scheduled days off, and camp concludes on February 28th. [...]
