3/22/09 — Orix (home)

March 22nd, 2009 Orix Buffaloes  2 Tokyo Swallows 5 Streak: Won 2   Last 5: WWLWW (Jingu Stadium) Ryo Kawashima pitched six decent innings of six hit, two run baseball to earn the win in this wind-blown spring training game. Both runs were surrendered in the fourth off of a blast by our good friend, [...]

3/21/09 — Orix (home)

March 21st, 2009 Orix Buffaloes  6 Tokyo Swallows 13 Streak: Won 1   Last 5: WWWLW (Jingu Stadium) Tokyo scored two runs in the bottom of the second inning to get on the board first, but this game would quickly turn into a bit of a see-saw contest, and a high scoring one at that. [...]

3/19/09 — Saitama (home)

March 19th, 2009 Saitama Seibu Lions 7 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 8 Streak: Won 3       Last 5: LDWWW (Jingu Stadium) Jamie D’Antona made a very powerful argument for why he deserves the cleanup slot in the batting order today. His first two at-bats of the game resulted in home runs, the first to right and [...]

3/15/09 — Hiroshima (away)

March 15th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2 Streak: Tied 1     Last 5: LLWLD (Onomichi) Ryo Kawashima started and pitched five innings of seven hit, two run baseball. Other vitals include four K’s against one walk plus one wild pitch. Tokyo’s relievers were rock solid this afternoon. Igarashi and Hashimoto [...]