An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
April 6th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 0 Chunichi Dragons 1 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: WLDLL (Nagoya Dome) Tonight was the regular season debut for Roman. After a tough opening inning, he settled down and pitched six strong innings. The Swallows opened the game by going down in order. In the home half of the first, [...]
October 31th, 2011 Yomiuri Giants 1 Tokyo Swallows 3 Series: Swallows Win 2-1 (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Based on the comments received in yesterday’s game report, you don’t need to read this report to find out that the Swallows won game 3 of their series against the hated Giants. The raw details of what happened and [...]
October 7th, 2011 Hiroshima Carp 0 Tokyo Swallows 1 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WLLLW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) After reluctantly relinquishing their lead in the CL standings, the Swallows return home to squeak out a win. In tonight’s game, I was interested in seeing how Akagawa would do after his no decision against Yokohama last [...]
October 4th, 2011 Tokyo Swallows 3 Hanshin Tigers 9 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WLLWL (Kyocera Dome) Tokyo’s season-defining twelve game stretch got off to the worst possible start as their ailing pitching staff were knocked about by Hanshin to the tune of fourteen hits and nine runs. Meanwhile in Nagoya, an almost [...]
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 [...]
September 19th, 2011 Yokohama BayStars 1 Tokyo Swallows 3 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WWTLW (Jingu Stadium) Tokyo are the first team in the Central League to 60 wins. After a bit of a wobble last night, the birds looked to take advantage of Yokohama’s 6′ 5″ (195 cm) second year right-hander, Kuniyoshi, who has [...]
September 7th, 2011 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Yokohama BayStars 0 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: WWLWW (Yokohama Stadium) If there’s one thing that’s been backwards over the past few years, it has been the difficulty Tokyo has had with Japan’s most-unfortunately nicknamed, and most unfortunate, club, the BayStars. Thankfully, that has changed. Akagawa notched his [...]
August 30th, 2011 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 4 Last 5: DLLLL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Erm, can’t we just end the regular season right now? Please? Because the way things are going, it seems highly likely that the Swallows will no longer be in possession of first place come this [...]
Welcome to the Monday Review, in which we’ll look back at the week that was and look ahead to the week that will be. We hope a recurring weekly review column will help readers identify some trends that can’t be covered in a single game report. We’re still trying to work out the format, so [...]
July 13th, 2011 Chunichi Dragons 5 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 Streak: Won 3 Last 5: WLWWW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) A sayonara RBI by Ryoji Aikawa in the tenth inning earned Tokyo their second straight victory over second-place Chunichi, putting the Swallows six games ahead atop the Central League. Us: Aoki (CF) Tanaka (2B) Whitesell (1B) [...]
