An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
May 22nd, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 2 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WWWLW (Sapporo Dome) In what was initially thought to be a Darvish-Tateyama faceoff, Swallows fans were a bit relieved to hear that former Tokyo southpaw, Shugo Fujii, would be taking the mound instead. Not that Fujii (3-2; 4.50) isn’t [...]
April 29th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7 Chunichi Dragons 1 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LLLWW (Nagoya Dome) Shohei Tateyama pitched a complete game, limiting the Dragons to a solitary run as Yakult’s good form against Chunichi continued in Nagoya. Tateyama gave up seven hits over the distance, striking out five and walking none [...]
April 7th, 2009 Chunichi Dragons 4 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Lost 1 Last ?: LWWL (Jingu Stadium) At Tokyo’s first home game of the 2009 season, there were fireworks and new dance routines. There were old friends and the beer prince (who is also an old friend). There was old-school hitting (Miyamoto) and new [...]
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 [...]
February 28th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 Chunichi Dragons 3 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: W (Chatan) The NPB pre-season games kicked off today, and not a moment too soon for many of us! Tokyo’s first game of the pre-season schedule, which stretches until March 29th, was against the Chunichi Dragons. As is often the [...]
September 10th, 2008 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Hanshin Tigers 4 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: WLWLL (Koshien Stadium) For the second night in a row, the Swallows suffered a sayonara loss to the Tigers, this time on a 9th inning bases loaded walk from Matsuoka to lose a game that they really should have won. Tokyo outhit Hanshin 15 [...]
September 3rd, 2008 Chunichi Dragons 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7 Streak: Won 4 Last 5:LWWWW (Jingu Stadium) Tokyo continued its stretch of decent play with a second consecutive win over the Chunichi Dragons. The Swallows have now won four straight and will attempt the series sweep tomorrow night at Jingu.
