June 21st, 2009

Saitama Seibu Lions 5

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6

Streak: Won 7       Last 5: WWWWW
(Jingu Stadium)
Tokyo won their season-best seventh straight game, and their third walkoff victory in a row as they wrapped up their interleague schedule against the Lions.

June 20th, 2009

Saitama Seibu Lions 4

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5

Streak: Won 6       Last 5: WWWWW
(Jingu Stadium)
Tonight was a good-ole’, extra-innings game, and you need to know only two words in order to understand all the fun that it entailed:
Jamie D’Antona.

June 3rd, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1

Saitama Seibu Lions 8

Streak: Lost 2       Last 5: WLWLL
(Seibu Dome)
This game blew.
I’ve been really considerate over the last month with the TAKADA COUNT that was introduced in April. There were several games when he would have added to his tally, but the team won in spite of [...]

June 2nd, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3

Saitama Seibu Lions 7

Streak: Lost 1       Last 5: WWLWL
(Seibu Dome)
Masanori Ishikawa’s worst outing of the season, combined with some wasteful Swallows hitting lead to a spanking at the hands of the current Japan Series Champions on Tuesday evening.
The Tokyo lineup saw Hatakeyama retain his place at first, [...]

March 29th, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6

Saitama Seibu Lions 9

Streak: Lost 1       Last 5: WWWWL
(Seibu Dome)
Saitama scored six runs off of seven hits in the bottom of the third to build a lead that they would not relinquish. Tokyo starter Hye-cheon Lee would leave the game after that inning having given up seven runs (all [...]

Trans-Pacific Radio has just posted a short podcast previewing a few of the ins and outs, at least where personnel changes are concerned, of the off-season for the six teams in the Pacific League.
You can listen to the podcast on your computer by going here.

March 28th, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 8
Saitama Seibu Lions 1
Streak: Won 5       Last 5: WWWWW
(Seibu Dome)
The Swallows followed up their old-fashioned kicking of the Baystars on Thursday with a pretty stern smacking of the Saitama Lions this afternoon.
Aoki was in the lineup at 1pm, but was promptly yanked. I don’t know whether it was because Watanabe [...]

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 the second to left.

March 18th, 2009
Saitama Seibu Lions 1
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 9

Streak: Won 2       Last 5: WLDWW
(Jingu Stadium)
The birds got the offense going early in one of the day’s four forgotten games (if you want to know what everyone in Japan was actually paying attention to, please scroll down to the next game report).
Tokyo teed off on former [...]

Trans-Pacific Radio just published a
podcast which reviews the 2008 baseball
season all the way through the Japan Series which was eventually won by the Saitama Seibu Lions.
Click here to listen to the podcast.