September 1st, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Yomiuri Giants 3 Streak: Drew 1 Last 5: WLLWD (Tomiyama) After finishing out a very respectable August with an 18-8 record, by far the best W-L tally in the Central League, the birds began September with a draw. Lineup: 1. Aoki CF 2. Tanaka 2B 3. Iihara [...]
August 31st, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 12 Yomiuri Giants 8 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LWLLW (Kanazawa) After being fairly well beaten in the last two games against the Tigers this weekend, the Swallows took some of the bad taste from their mouths with a win against our other favourite CL brethren. Aoki (CF) Tanaka [...]
August 25th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7 Yokohama BayStars 6 Streak: Won 3 Last 5: WLWWW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Despite a late wobble, the Swallows continued their journey into positive territory with another win over the Baystars. Tokyo are now just the third team in history to recover from being 19 games or more [...]
August 18th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 14 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 5 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WLLLW (Mazda Stadium) Tokyo got back on track as their bats feasted on Hiroshima pitching in a 21 hit mauling of the Carp. That combined with Ishikawa managing to give the bullpen a much needed night off by [...]
August 1st, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Yokohama BayStars 3 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: WWWLL (Home away from home game in Iwaki) The two unearned runs surrendered in the eighth were the difference in this game as the birds dropped their second in a row to sixth-place Yokohama. Tokyo’s lineup: 1. Aoki CF [...]
July 28th, 2010 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2 Tokyo Swallows 12 Streak: Won 3 Last 5: LLWWW (Jingu Stadium) Extra base-hits were the order of the day as Tokyo banged out nine of them in their destruction of struggling Hiroshima. Aoki (CF) Tanaka (2B) Ihara (RF) Whitesell (1B) Hatakeyama (LF) Aikawa (C) Miyamoto (3B) Kawabata [...]
July 18th, 2010 Hanshin Tigers 11 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: WWWLL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Yoshinori was his same annoyingly inconsistent self to start things off today. Randy Messenger, on the other hand, looked sharp for Hanshin. He needs to quit that chewing tobacco habit though. Starting lineup: 1. Aoki [...]
July 15th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 9 Chunichi Dragons 4 Streak: Won 5 Last 5: WWWWW (Nagoya Dome) The Swallows managed to put the finishing touches on their third five-game winning streak of the season (all of them in the post-Takada era) while taking full advantage of every opportunity given to them. Tonight’s lineup: [...]
July 11th, 2010 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2 Tokyo Swallows 3 Streak: Won 3 Last 5: LLWWW (Jingu Stadium) The Swallows manage to protect a slim lead at Jingu this afternoon. Today’s lineup saw the return of both Aikawa and Miyamoto: Aoki CF Tanaka 2B Iihara RF Whitesell LF Hatakeyama 1B Aikawa C Miyamoto 3B [...]
July 7th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Hanshin Tigers 3 Streak: Lost 3 Last 5: WWLLL (Koshien) Tokyo fell to their third straight loss as they again struggled to get their offence working against Hanshin at Koshien. With Whitesell out of action after taking one on the knee the evening prior, it was a case of “as [...]
