An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
Welcome to the Monday Review, in which we’ll look back at the week that was and look ahead to the week that will be. We hope a recurring weekly review column will help readers identify some trends that can’t be covered in a single game report. We’re still trying to work out the format, so [...]
It’s being reported that Tokyo are set to purchase Chikara Onodera, a right-handed reliever, from the Saitama Seibu Lions. Onodera is 30 years old and hails from Saitama Prefecture and is in his ninth year of professional baseball. He’s listed 95 kg and 188 cm tall, and he had what was arguably his best year [...]
September 23rd, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 0 Streak: Last 5: LWLWW (Mazda Zoooooom Zooooooooooom Stadium Hiroshima) This one was a straight-up pitchers battle between Hiroshima’s finest (not to mention the current CL ERA and wins leader) Kenta Maeda facing off against (in the eyes of this writer anyway) Tokyo’s finest, [...]
July 10th, 2010 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2 Tokyo Swallows 5 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LLLWW (Jingu Stadium) Ishikawa finally managed to get his third win of the season on a sun-drenched afternoon in downtown Tokyo. That ties him with Barnette for fifth on the team in terms of wins. Today’s lineup: 1. Aoki [...]
How We Got There The Swallows came into June fresh off the Takada firing, and were only 4 games into the Ogawa regime. The Birds were looking to build on the 1-2-1 record they had compiled under Ogawa, by exacting revenge on the Pacific League teams that had swept them in May. How We Did [...]
June 10th, 2010 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 4 Streak: Won 2 Last 5: LWLWW (Sapporo Dome) They finally did it. For the first time since Tokyo beat the Yokohama Baystars on the 2nd and 3rd of April, the Swallows have won back to back games and thus won a series. That’s all [...]
October 18th, 2009 Tokyo Swallows 2 Chunichi Dragons 3 Series: Chunichi 1-1 Tokyo (Nagoya Dome) The Dragons leveled the series with a come-from-behind win and made sure that both team’s season will survive at least one more day.
October 11th, 2009 Chunichi Dragons 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Streak: Won 5 Last 5: WWWWW (Jingu Stadium) With the Swallows clinching 3rd and a Climax Series place on Friday, this preview matchup between the two teams that will be contesting the first round of the post-season was meant to be a nice quiet game, [...]
October 6th, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 10 Yokohama BayStars 4 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: LLWLW (Yokohama Stadium) For quite a while, it looked as though Yokohama would frustrate Tokyo for the 14th time this year. But in the end, the Swallows extra class told as they put up eight runs in the 8th [...]
October 3rd, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 Hanshin Tigers 4 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WLLLW (Koshien) With the race for 3rd getting tighter with every day, this was a game that the Swallows simply had to win. A loss tonight and they’d be two games back of Hanshin, a win and they’d [...]
