An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
Chunichi Dragons Free agent LHP Wei-ying Chen signed with Baltimore. It’s a three-year deal that consequently puts a serious dent in Chunichi’s ability to keep opposing teams off the board. Cheers to that! Yomiuri Giants Sounds like the Giants may be about to sign utility INF/OF John Bowker who was recently released by the Phillies. [...]
Chunichi Dragons Mr. Takagi, the Dragons’ energetic and cuddly new manager, wants fans to touch his butt if they win the Central League Pennant in 2012. Yomiuri Giants In preparation for the upcoming season, Utsumi and several of his teammates went shopping in Guam. According to this report compiled by Yakyu Baka, Yomiuri will likely [...]
June 15th, 2011 Saitama Seibu Lions 8 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 0 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: DLWWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Yamamoto did his thing – nullifying Ks with RBIs and BBs, while the offense did a little reprise of their earlier Interleague performance by leaving their bats on the rack. Tokyo: 1. Aoki (CF) [...]
June 14th, 2011 Saitama Seibu Lions 5 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LDLWW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) After three innings of this one Tokyo looked dead and buried, but the continued resurgence of their bullpen again kept them in the game while their bats pulled off a remarkable come from behind [...]
May 28th, 2011 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Saitama Seibu Lions 3 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LDLWL (Seibu Dome) After the brief respite that was the win against Orix on Thursday, normal Swallows Inter-League service was resumed as they lost to the Lions at the Seibu Dome. Us: Ishikawa (P) Aoki (CF) Fukuchi (LF) [...]
It’s being reported that Tokyo are set to purchase Chikara Onodera, a right-handed reliever, from the Saitama Seibu Lions. Onodera is 30 years old and hails from Saitama Prefecture and is in his ninth year of professional baseball. He’s listed 95 kg and 188 cm tall, and he had what was arguably his best year [...]
The Swallows have just announced that they have acquired right-handed pitcher Minoru Yamagishi from the Saitama Seibu Lions. In return, the Swallows have sent catcher Tomohito Yoneno to the Lions. Yamagishi was drafted by Seibu in the 4th round of the 2004 draft out of Aoyama Gakuin University. Yamagishi had served as Aoyama’s ace for [...]
June 5th, 2010 Saitama Seibu Lions 6 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LWLWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Tokyo put up quite a fight, but in the end didn’t quite have enough to earn their first series win since the beginning of April. Aoki (CF) Tanaka (2B) Guiel (RF) D’Antona (1B) Takeuchi [...]
June 4th, 2010 Saitama Seibu Lions 6 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 12 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WLWLW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) After splitting their last two series, Tokyo continued with their improvement under Ogawa as they notched up an extremely impressive victory over the formidable Seibu Lions. The victory was all the more impressive considering [...]
May 19th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Saitama Seibu Lions 3 Streak: Lost 6 Last 5: LLLLL (Seibu Dome) The Tokyo Swallows took their one-ring circus to Saitama for game two at Seibu Dome against the Lions. The first inning wasn’t particularly encouraging, from an offensive standpoint anyway, but things got mildly better after [...]
