September 3rd, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Yokohama BayStars 2 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LLWDW (Yokohama) This game got a little wild at the end, but it ended on the right note for the visiting Tokyo Swallows. Tonite’s lineup: 1. Aoki CF 2. Tanaka 2B 3. Iihara RF 4. Whitesell 1B 5. Hatakeyama [...]
August 26th, 2010 Yokohama BayStars 9 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LWWWL (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Damned BayStars. OK, OK, I’ll admit the they’ve-got-our-number thing is a bit exaggerated, but damn them anyway. Our Boys in the (rather nice) ‘Hood: Aoki Tanaka Takeuchi Whitesell Yuichi Miyamoto Kawabata Kawamoto Yoshinori The Basket-case [...]
August 25th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7 Yokohama BayStars 6 Streak: Won 3 Last 5: WLWWW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Despite a late wobble, the Swallows continued their journey into positive territory with another win over the Baystars. Tokyo are now just the third team in history to recover from being 19 games or more [...]
August 24th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 13 Yokohama BayStars 5 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: WWLWW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) After three exceedingly tight games in Nagoya this last weekend, Tokyo unloaded on the omni-shambles that is the Yokohama Baystars as they saw their record finally return to some semblance of respectability. So come one, come all, [...]
August 8th, 2010 Tokyo Swallows 11 Yokohama BayStars 4 Streak: Won 6 Last 5: WWWWW (Yokohama Stadium) One after another. If I say more, I fear a jinx. For the Swallows: Aoki Tanaka Takeuchi Whitesell Hatakeyama Aikawa Miyamoto Kawabata Barnette For the BayStars: Uchikawa Ishikawa Harper Murata Sledge Castillo Shimozono Hashimoto Ohka Obana is [...]
August 7th, 2010 Tokyo Swallows 10 Yokohama BayStars 7 Streak: Won 5 Last 5: WWWWW (Yokohama Stadium) After last night’s drubbing handed out to the Baystars, tonight’s game was more of a tightly contested affair despite Tokyo outhitting the opposition 17-9. But in the end class told as the Swallows came out on top [...]
August 6th, 2010 Tokyo Swallows 16 Yokohama BayStars 4 Streak: Won 4 Last 5: LWWWW (Yokohama Stadium) The BayStars were the last team to beat the Swallows, way back on August 1st, in Iwaki. Yokohama won that series and set some of here at the Tsubamegun to lamenting our relatively poor fortunes against the [...]
August 1st, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Yokohama BayStars 3 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: WWWLL (Home away from home game in Iwaki) The two unearned runs surrendered in the eighth were the difference in this game as the birds dropped their second in a row to sixth-place Yokohama. Tokyo’s lineup: 1. Aoki CF [...]
July 31st, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 Yokohama BayStars 7 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: WWWWL (Koriyama) It figures, doesn’t it? At least it was quick (2:30) and nearly unseen (10,414 in attendance). Is there any point to any recent BayStars season other than maddeningly smacking our guys around? Here it is, folks: The [...]
June 30th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Yokohama BayStars 2 Streak: Won 4 Last 5: LWWWW (Okinawa Cellular Stadium Naha) It wasn’t a romp like last night, but the Tokyo Swallows still got the win and moved into fourth place in the Central League. Tonite’s lineup: 1. Aoki CF 2. Tanaka 2B 3. Iihara [...]
