Yomiuri 4
Hokkaido 3
Series: Hokkaido 0-1 Yomiuri
(Sapporo Dome)
The 2009 Japan Series kicked off tonight in Sapporo with the Pacific League Champions, Hokkaido, hosting their Central League counterparts, the Yomiuri Giants.

October 12th, 2009

Yomiuri Giants 3
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5
Streak: Won 6   Last 5: WWWWW
(Jingu Stadium)
The Swallows closed out their regular season with a come from behind win against the Giants, ending their terrible run of losses against Yomuri. Not that this game meant too much really.

October 5th, 2009

Yomiuri Giants X
Tokyo Yakult Swallows X
Streak: Lost 1  Last 5: LLLWL
(Jingu Stadium)
Tonight’s game was postponed due to heavy rain over the Tokyo area.
With rain (and possibly a typhoon) forecast for the rest of the week, and all of Tokyo’s remaining games due to take place in outdoor ballparks (Yokohama and Jingu), expect more of this [...]

October 4th, 2009

Yomiuri Giants 5
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1
Streak: Lost 1  Last 5: LLLWL
(Jingu Stadium)
With it now nine games against the Giants without a win (8 losses, 1 tie) I really don’t know why I bother to write game reports for these encounters. I should just write the score, then a succinct “Yeah, you know how [...]

The current key series with the ever-lovable (cough) Hanshin Tigers is proving to be a costly one, even if Tokyo do manage to take tonight’s game to win the series.

September 19th, 2009

Yomiuri Giants 6
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3
Streak: Lost 2    Last 5: LWWLL
(Jingu Stadium)
This one was a lot closer than the night before, but ultimately, the result was the same.

September 18th, 2009

Yomiuri Giants 10
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2
Streak: Lost 1    Last 5: LLWWL
(Jingu Stadium)
After two long overdue victories on the trot, normal service was resumed tonight as the team did what they nearly always do when facing their local neighbours, they yet again rolled over and became Yomiuri’s bitches.

September 6th, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2
Yomiuri Giants 4
Streak: Lost 2   Last 5: LWDLL
(Tokyo Dome)
Well if Friday was a travesty of justice, and yesterday a feeble blowout, then today was simple wastefulness. Tokyo outhit the Giants 8 to 6 and had a few good chances to score more runs but as has been their problem [...]

September 5th, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 0
Yomiuri Giants 7
Streak: Lost 1   Last 5: LLWDL
(Tokyo Dome)
Oshimoto made his first start in four years as he attempted to help out the ailing Yakult rotation, and he did very well indeed, though his hard work was undone by the patched-up bullpen. He also got no run support as [...]

September 4th, 2009

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3
Yomiuri Giants 3
Streak: Drawn 1   Last 5: LLLWD
(Tokyo Dome)
Tokyo and those stupid orange fuktards Yomiuri played out the longest game in the CL this year, as they couldn’t be separated in 5 hours and 27 minutes of baseball.
Tragically, the Swallows were robbed of a well deserved victory by a sheet [...]