An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
Hopefully this won’t have to be a regular feature, but with a lot of key injuries recently it seemed like a good idea to provide a summary of the Swallows’ key player injuries. Shohei Tateyama: The biggest injury bombshell came this morning as Tateyama held a press conference to announce that he was going to [...]
October 4th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 4 Hiroshima Carp 0 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LWWLW (Mazda Stadium) With the season winding down, the Carp and Swallows met for their final Mazda Stadium game of the 2012 season. With their post-season fate already sealed the Swallows came in to the game looking to extend personal [...]
October 1st, 2012 Yomiuri Giants 0 Tokyo Swallows 5 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WLWLW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Tokyo finished out its regular season schedule against crosstown rival, Yomiuri, in some style with a rather uneventful win over the 2012 Central League champs. The win brought Tokyo’s regular season record against the Giants to [...]
September 11th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 2 Hanshin Tigers 0 Streak: Last 5: WLLDW (Koshien) Roman rode his luck on the way to his ninth win of the season as Hanshin turned chance-wasting into an art-form. Meanwhile Tokyo’s bats did just enough to eke out a win that puts them back in a tie for that [...]
September 9th, 2012 Yomiuri Giants 4 Tokyo Swallows 4 Streak: Drew 1 Last 5: WWLLD (Hard Off Eco Stadium, Niigata) The Birds jumped out to an early lead only to squander it two innings later. The first third of this game was a bit of a bore as not much was happening. The top [...]
August 31st, 2012 Chunichi Dragons 4 Tokyo Swallows 4 Streak: Drew 2 Last 5: WLWDD (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Poor pitching was seen at the start and end of tonight’s game. Both starters had a rough first few innings and then closers for both teams slipped up in the ninth. Tonight saw both teams don the throw-back uni’s [...]
August 26th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 2 Chunichi Dragons 0 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LLLWW (Nagoya Dome) For the second game in a row, the Tokyo starter pitched a complete game shut-out against the Chubu newspaper smurfs. Both pitchers pitched extremely well today. Fortunately for the Birds, their bats came alive at the right time and did enough [...]
August 8th, 2012 Yokohama BayStars 2 Tokyo Swallows 3 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WLLLW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) In which Tokyo manages to salvage some pride and at least beat the BayStars. Yokohama started the scoring almost right away by going with the time-honored technique of playing the top of the first like the top [...]
August 1st, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 2 Hanshin Tigers 3 Streak: Lost 3 Last 5: WDLLL (Koshien) The Tigers took an early lead off of Muranaka and held on late for the win. The Birds have now lost 3 in a row. There is not much to take away from tonight’s game except the fact that [...]
Something for you to read while sorting out your statistical support. Tokyo just ended a rain-shortened week that started nicely and ended with a whimper. Some of that whimper is likely attributable to the fact that Milledge was forced to sit out most of the Hiroshima series last weekend. But before we get into that, [...]
