September 19th, 2008 Yokohama BayStars 2 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 Streak: Won 2 Last 5:LLLWW (Jingu Stadium) I made my way to the stadium nice an slowly. Typhoon #13 is headed this way, so I didn’t want to show up too early, grab my ticket, and find everyone hustling out of the building five minutes [...]
9/12/08 – Yomiuri (Away)
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9/4/08 – Chunichi (Home)
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September 4th, 2008 Chunichi Dragons 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Streak: Won 5 Last 5:WWWWW (Jingu Stadium) Hats off to Sean Douglass who threw eight innings of impressive, rain-drenched baseball in his third start since joining the team! He fully deserved his first win of the season, giving up only one hit and one walk [...]
8/16/08 – Chunichi (Away)
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August 16th, 2008 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Chunichi Dragons 0 Streak: Won 3 Last 5:WLWWW (Nagoya Dome) For the second night in a row Yakult shut out the Chunichi Dragons in Nagoya, as new-boy Sean Douglass made a promising start to his Tokyo career. Ex-Carp and mid-season aquisition Douglass went 5 shutout innings, giving up [...]
Tokyo picks up Sean Douglass
July 31, 2008 By Leave a Comment
On July 28th, as the July 31st deadline for trades and signing foreign players drew near, the Swallows signed right-handed pitcher Sean Douglass, who played 2006 for the Hiroshima Carp with a 3.41 ERA and a 9-6 record in 18 starts and 20 appearances before spending 2007 out with injuries. Tokyo passed on an opportunity [...]
