04/17/12 Hanshin (Away)

This is becoming far too much of a familiar sight

April 17th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows  0 Hanshin Tigers  4 Streak: Lost 1   Last 5: LLWWL (Hotto Motto Field Kobe) After two good wins against the Carp this last weekend, Tokyo returned to the kind of baseball that saw them lose last week’s series against the Baystars. The impotent bat kind. In fairness to those [...]

10/6/11 – Hanshin (Away)

Will the nightmare end? Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

October 6th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 1 Hanshin Tigers 7 Streak: Lost 3    Last 5: LWLLL (Kyocera Dome) Let’s not beat around the bush the Swallows lost, and the Dragons won their fifth straight game tonight. Which meant that the Swallows have relinquished their CL lead for the first time since May 30th, the last [...]

10/2/11 – Yokohama (Away)

Straight pudding.

October 2nd, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 4 Yokohama BayStars 3 Streak: Won 1   Last 5: WWLLW (Yokohama Stadium) After watching its young pitchers get knocked about the park for the past two days, Tokyo looked to salvage a bit of pride against the recently very feisty BayStars. Tokyo opened the scoring on a solo Hatakeyama [...]

10/1/11 Yokohama (Away)

Not a great day to be a Swallows' pitcher.

October 1st, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 3 Yokohama BayStars 10 Streak: Lost 2   Last 5: WWWLL (Yokohama Stadium) Things were not pretty as the Swallows’ young bullpen arms were exposed to the BayStars’ bats. Akagawa seemed to have a handle of things in the early going. Even the solo homerun he gave up to Tsutsugo [...]

9/30/11 Yokohama (Away)

Hey don't worry about it. They will be sitting at home when we are in the playoffs!

September 30th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 0  Yokohama BayStars 5 Streak: L1   Last 5: WWWWL (Yokohama Stadium)   Swallows finish up the month of September 17-7-1 (with one rain out). This included the mind-blowing 12-1 start to the month. In tonight’s game, we saw Masubuchi on the hill for the Birds, while Miura was the ‘Stars hurler. As [...]

9/27/11 – Hanshin (Home)

9-27-11 Kawabata

September 27th, 2011 Hanshin Tigers 4 Tokyo Swallows 8 Streak: Won 2  Last 5: LLLWW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) After failing to grasp the chance to put some decent breathing room between them and the second-placed Dragons in Nagoya last week, every game for the remaining three weeks or so of the regular season is essentially [...]

9/24/11 – Chunichi (Away)

The Dragons celebrate their win. Hopefully the Swallows would like to celebrate their own wins again.

September 24th, 2011 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Chunichi Dragons 3 Streak: Lost 4  Last 5: TLLLL (Nagoya Dome) Another day, another heart-breakingly close loss to the Dragons in Nagoya. The Swallows got their points early as Kawabata managed a two out single off Soto, which Hatake followed with his 21st home run of the season. [...]

9/18/11 – Yokohama (Home)

Lots of Ks, but lots of runs.

September 18th, 2011 Yokohama BayStars 4 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 1  Last 5: WWWTL (Jingu Stadium) A ninth-inning rally wasn’t quite enough to stop the outhit Swallows from losing for the first time since September 4th and closing their longest unbeaten streak in over a year. Masubuchi started off fairly well. Three strike-outs [...]

Tokyo's 2008 Draft Picks

Tokyo's 1st-round draft choice, lefty Katsuki Akagawa.

The amateur draft took place last night, but the media only picked up the fact that Yomiuri landed a big-hitting kid by the name of Taishi Ota out of Tokaidai Sagami High School as their first pick. Anyway, while it may come as a surprise to the media that 11 other teams were present at [...]