Tokyo Swallows Snapshot: July 9, 2012

Kawabata clubs his first homer of 2012. If he stays healthy, look for many more during the second half of the season.

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, [...]

Tokyo Swallows Snapshot: July 3, 2012

Milledge sneaks a run in the first inning on Sunday. Like almost the entire top half of the lineup, Milledge had one hell of a week at the plate.

Holy crap. Is July really here already? Here’s something to read while treading cautiously. We just witnessed a week of starting pitching that was as consistently poor as we’ve seen all year. Tateyama had arguably the best start of the week, giving up four earned runs off of 11 hits in six and two-thirds innings [...]

Tokyo Swallows Snapshot: June 25th, 2012

Tokyo settles for a tie on Sunday.

Welcome back, Swallowers! Here’s something for you to read while searching for an opponent. Swallows of the Week Week 11 Here is a recap of the top performers from Week 11 (copied from this post): Kazuhiro Hatakeyama (1B) - notched the most hits on the team last week, going 6-21 at the plate. He was also [...]

Tokyo Swallows Snapshot: May 7th, 2012

Coco made this pose many times this week. They must've thought it was hailing in the left field stands.

Hello, all you Swallowers! Here’s something to read while claiming your shark repellent spray refund. Miyamoto’s Meikyukai Induction Miyamoto became the 40th batter to reach the 2,000 hit milestone with a single in his first at-bat against Hiroshima starter, Yuya Fukui on Friday. The game was immediately halted as Miyamoto’s teammates came onto the field [...]

Tokyo Swallows Snapshot: April 9, 2012

Milledge hit his first round-tripper this week, but it wasn't quite enough to get him onto the weekly MVP ballot.

Homepage Layout A couple of very small changes have occurred on the homepage of this fair website. We moved the Central League standings plugin to the footer area and added a Pacific League widget as well. We also started a Swallows of the Week list down in the footer. The winner of week one voting [...]

Tokyo Swallows Snapshot: April 2, 2012

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Hello, Tokyo fans! Here’s something for you to read while trying to be cool. The season has started and your birds are off to a decent start. This past weekend they largely embarrassed crosstown rivals, Yomiuri, in a three-game series at the stain-dome, and they’re now looking ahead to an infestation of Hanshin maniacs starting [...]