Swallows put on show at plate while Masanori Ishikawa dominates on mound against BayStars
Tetsuto Yamada and Keiji Obiki both bagged three-run homers in the first inning, opening the floodgates as the Tokyo Yakult Swallows blew away the Yokohama BayStars 15-2 in the Central League on Wednesday. With their offense clicking into gear from the outset, the last-place Swallows ...
Giants' Yoshiyuki Kamei delivers sayonara sacrifice fly in 10th to down Swallows
The Yomiuri Giants got knocked down. The Tokyo Yakult Swallows, however, didn't quite knock the Kyojin out. Kazuma Okamoto hit a game-tying three run homer in the eighth and Yoshiyuki Kamei won it with a pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the 10th inning as Yomiuri surged late ...
Toshiro Miyazaki's sayonara single lifts BayStars to win over Swallows
Toshiro Miyazaki hit a sayonara single in the bottom of the ninth to give the Yokohama BayStars a 4-3 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in the Central League on Wednesday. Kazuki Kamizato singled off right-hander Kazuki Kondo, with Keita Sano and Tomo Otosaka on ...
BayStars receive key contributions from several players in victory over Swallows
Kazuki Kamizato went 4-for-5 with a pair of runs and an RBI to lead the Yokohama BayStars to a 6-2 victory over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Tuesday. Rookie Taiga Kamichatani got his sixth win of the season with a solid seven-inning start. He held ...
Giants pinch hitter Shinnosuke Shigenobu delivers game-winning double in ninth against Swallows
Pinch hitter Shinnosuke Shigenobu lofted a fly ball to the wall that fell for a game-winning double, lifting the Yomiuri Giants to a 6-5 walk-off win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Tuesday. Before a crowd of 33,331 at Kyocera Dome, the Central League-leading Giants ...
Swallows reliever Scott McGough thrilled to be late addition to CL All-Star team
Scott McGough was planning to use his time off during the All-Star break to head down to Enoshima, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was going to walk around and see the sights and then maybe relax on a beach somewhere. That was the plan at least, before ...
Munetaka Murakami's grand slam fuels Swallows' win over Carp
Tokyo Yakult Swallows rookie Munetaka Murakami crushed a fifth-inning grand slam Wednesday as the Central League cellar dwellers overpowered the Hiroshima Carp 6-2. The blast against Hiroshima starter Casey Lawrence was No. 20 of the season for the 19-year-old Murakami, whose development has been a ...
Daichi Takeyasu earns first win since 2017 as Buffaloes beat Swallows
Right-hander Daichi Takeyasu pitched seven-plus innings and claimed his first win since 2017 on Monday as the Orix Buffaloes defeated the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6-2 in interleague play. Takeyasu (1-0) allowed two runs on five hits, a walk and two hit batsmen in the day's ...
Takahiro Araki tied the game with a ninth-inning, pinch-hit RBI single, helping the Tokyo Yakult Swallows overturn a late deficit in their 6-5 interleague victory over the Seibu Lions on Saturday. The Swallows salvaged a win by beating Lions closer Tatsushi Masuda (3-1) after blowing ...
Keiji Obiki drove in three early runs with a two-out, bases-loaded double on Sunday afternoon as the Tokyo Yakult Swallows snapped a three-week losing streak with a 5-2 win over the Yokohama BayStars. The Swallows had been one defeat away from eclipsing their Central League-record ...
Shota Imanaga struck out 11 over seven scoreless innings and Neftali Soto hit his 15th home run and the Yokohama BayStars held off the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3-2 in the Central League on Friday. The loss was the Swallows' 15th straight, one shy of the ...
Carp rookie Sho Yamaguchi shines in first start as Swallows drop 14th straight
Rookie Sho Yamaguchi allowed one hit over seven scoreless innings in his starting debut on Thursday in the Hiroshima Carp's 13-0 victory over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. The Swallows were handed their 14th straight loss. At Jingu Stadium, Yamaguchi located his fastball and slider early on, ...
