September 25th, 2009 Yokohama BayStars 2 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Streak: Won 3  Last 5: LLWWW (Jingu Stadium) For the third time in as many games a Tokyo starter lasted all nine innings, and the birds were able to continue their mini-revival (third win in a row) versus the 6th-place BayStars.

With the pre-season schedule now underway, I thought we’d take a look at the results of this year’s salary negotiations and see who’s getting paid what in Tokyo this year (note: all salary figures are given in multiples of a million yen, eg ?40M = ?40,000,000):      The Big Boys   Norichika Aoki – The [...]

October 1st, 2008 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 13 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LLLWW (Jingu Stadium) Don’t call it a comeback. Another hiccup for Hiroshima at the hands of Tokyo as the Swallows put up another big mid-game inning and walked all over the visitors. Hiroshima scored first off of Tokyo starter, [...]

September 16th, 2008 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 6 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5 Streak: Lost 8 Last 5: LLLLL (Jingu Stadium) Another close game, and another last inning loss.

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.

July 25th, 2008 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Yomiuri Giants 3 Streak: Lost 2.  Last 5: WLWLL (Tokyo Dome) This game started alright. Fukuchi doubled to left. Miyamoto grounded out. Aoki drew a walk, and then Hatakeyama brought Fukuchi around by way of a troublesome liner to short that resulted in an error. 1-0 Tokyo. Another run [...]

July 18th, 2008 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 8 Streak: Won 2. Last 5: WWLWW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Like last night, this was another weird one. Hiroshima did everything they could to give Tokyo the win in the end. To Tokyo’s credit, Tanaka had a good game with three hits and one rbi. [...]