An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
Something to read while remembering to keep your hands in your pockets. Swallows of the Week Week 3 Last week’s vote saw the strong performances by Hiroyasu Tanaka (2B), Lastings Milledge (LF), Katsuki Akagawa (P), and Kyohei Muranaka (P). 28 people cast their vote this week, and here’s what they decided: Congratulations to Beavis, a [...]
April 22nd, 2012 Yomiuri Giants 2 Tokyo Swallows 3 Streak: Won 3 Last 5: WLWWW (Jingu Stadium) Sweep! Sweep! Sweep! Sweep! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeep! Roman finally got his first NPB ‘W’ in his fourth start of the year and second this week. Despite the rain, this was another enjoyable game to watch for the Swallows fans in [...]
April 20th, 2012 Yomiuri Giants 1 Tokyo Swallows 2 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WLWLW (Jingu Stadium) Tokyo entered this series having just lost an away series at Koshien, and were looking to get things back on track against the very unbalanced fifth-placed Yomiuri Giants. This game didn’t start well at all for Muranaka and [...]
Something for you to read while fielding offers for a more appropriate gig. Swallows of the Week Week 2 Ishikawa was the week one MVP, but he tanked after that. Hopefully the same fate does not await the winner of the week two polling. 31 people voted this time around, and they had five choices: Shingo [...]
April 14th, 2012 Hiroshima Carp 1 Tokyo Swallows 10 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WWLLW (Matsuyama) The birds’ first game of the year against the fish was a home-away-from-home game in Matsuyama, a fortunate choice of location given the constant rain that cancelled every other game in the Kanto region. Your Tokyo [...]
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 [...]
April 8th, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 3 Chunichi Dragons 1 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LDLWW (Nagoya Dome) Tokyo’s struggles at Nagoya Dome are long-documented on this site, so last night’s 2-1 win over the 2011 Central League Champs on their home turf was a wonderful sigh of relief. But Tokyo’s birds gave you something else [...]
Tokyo News Today’s home opener versus the Hanshin Tigers was obliterated by very unfriendly weather, so the clocks of the Tokyo faithful have been reset to 6PM Wednesday evening. We’ll see you there. Miyamoto took a pitch in the upper calf (just below the back of the knee) during Sunday’s game, and he’s apparently still [...]
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 [...]
April 1st, 2012 Tokyo Swallows 2 Yomiuri Giants 4 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WWL– (Tokyo Dome) After beating Utsumi and Sawamura on Friday and Saturday, Tokyo had the honor of witnessing the start to Toshiya Sugiuchi’s career in orange. Long may he struggle. And while it may not look like he did that poorly [...]
