An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
Pitcher Chang-yong Lim (no. 12) made his return to the top team after a brief rest due to fatigue/back stiffness. He was on the first team roster yesterday, but he didn’t make an appearance in the Swallows’ most recent collapse. Lim’s record before being deactivated from the first team earlier this month was five wins [...]
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 [...]
Pitchers Yuya Kamada (no. 20) and Tatsuyoshi Masubuchi (no. 22) were called up to the top team before yesterday’s game. This is the second time in recent weeks that Kamada has been called up, the first time was detailed in this Roster Update. Kamada has a 4.50 in eight innings of work for the top [...]
September 2nd, 2009 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Hanshin Tigers 9 Streak: Lost 6 Last 5: LLLLL (Koshien) Luckily for the surging Tigers, Takada plugged Masubuchi into the lineup for his first start of the year. One could probably argue that this was not the wisest time to do such a thing, but we’ll get [...]
Pitchers Kousuke Matsui and Ricky Barrett were brought up from the farm team yesterday, and both of them made appearances after our starter, Kyouhei Muranaka, threw what amounted to batting practice for the first two innings of the game. Right-handed pitcher Kousuke Matsui (no. 44) turns 31 this month and is in his fourth year [...]
August 13th, 2009 Yokohama BayStars 13 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2 Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: LLWLL (Jingu Stadium) Wow. That was embarrassing.
August 12th, 2009 Yokohama BayStars 4 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Lost 1 Last 5: LLLWL (Jingu Stadium) Much like last week’s series, the birds opened this one with a win last night. Would they be able to make it two in a row? Just to make things interesting, Ichiba was in for his second [...]
Yuya Kamada (no. 20) has replaced Masao Kida in the bullpen as of today. Kamada made three appearances and pitched a total of four innings without surrendering a run, but he was dropped to the farm team a couple of months ago. The 30-year-old right-handed pitcher from Akita prefecture has several years of first team [...]
June 9th, 2008 Chiba Lotte Marines 5 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3 Streak: Lost 3 (Home game: Jingu Stadium) Chiba starter, Ono, got the win on only five innings of work and 68 pitches. Kamada took the loss, his second in 14 relief appearances, for the home team. Nishioka hit a leadoff home run in the [...]
