It’s that time of year again. Spring camp has begun, and the players are all gearing up for another season of sweeping all before them (well, the Giants players are anyway.) The salary negotiations are done and our heroes in the Tokyo uniforms now know how much they will be earning to follow the instructions [...]

October 19th, 2009

Tokyo Swallows 4

Chunichi Dragons 7

Series: Chunichi 2-1 Tokyo
(Nagoya Dome)
Chunichi was definitely the better team today, but they should never forget that they had the flu and a little bit of Takada on their side. Either way, the season came to an end for the Swallows while the Dragons now inherit the unenviable task [...]

October 18th, 2009

Tokyo Swallows 2

Chunichi Dragons 3

Series: Chunichi 1-1 Tokyo
(Nagoya Dome)
The Dragons leveled the series with a come-from-behind win and made sure that both team’s season will survive at least one more day.

October 9th, 2009

Hanshin Tigers 1

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3

Streak: Won 4      Last 5:  LWWWW
(Jingu Stadium)
Whisper it, we are A-Class. No f*uck that. Shout it from the rooftops, WE ARE A-CLASS!!
In the biggest game the Swallows have faced in years, they did what was necessary and beat the Hanshin Tigers to secure 3rd place in [...]

October 8th, 2009

Hanshin Tigers 0

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5

Streak: Won 3      Last 5:  WLWWW
(Jingu Stadium)
The birds rode a complete game shutout by starter Tateyama to their third win in a row and reclaimed third place in the Central League in the process.

October 3rd, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6

Hanshin Tigers 4
Streak: Won 1      Last 5:  WLLLW
(Koshien)
With the race for 3rd getting tighter with every day, this was a game that the Swallows simply had to win. A loss tonight and they’d be two games back of Hanshin, a win and they’d be level. For these big [...]

The current key series with the ever-lovable (cough) Hanshin Tigers is proving to be a costly one, even if Tokyo do manage to take tonight’s game to win the series.

September 23rd, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4
Hiroshima Toyo Carp 1
Streak: Won 2      Last : LLLWW
(Mazda Stadium)
The day after Takagi threw a complete game shutout, Yuki went the distance himself as Tokyo won only their second series in the last  month and a half. The same two pitchers were at the helm for the series [...]

September 21st, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5
Hiroshima Toyo Carp 6
Streak: Lost 4      Last : WLLLL
(Mazda Stadium)
There are nights when I seriously have to question whether or not watching and writing about baseball is actually fun, or in fact a colossal waste of time, emotion and energy. Tonight (as well as far too many of late) was [...]

September 16th, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7

Yokohama BayStars 3

Streak: Won 2  Last 5: LLLWW
(Yokohama Stadium)
The Swallows won two games in a row for the first time since July 31st and August 1st when the team was playing the Dragons at home. Coincidentally, that was also the last time that the birds won a three game series.
It’s [...]