Japan - NPB | 07/12 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Yokohama Bay Stars | L | 1-7 | |
Japan - NPB | 07/11 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Yokohama Bay Stars | L | 1-10 | |
Japan - NPB | 07/10 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Chunichi Dragons | L | 4-7 | |
Japan - NPB | 07/09 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Chunichi Dragons | L | 0-4 | |
Japan - NPB | 07/08 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Chunichi Dragons | W | 5-4 | |
Japan - NPB | 07/05 05:00 | 1 | Hiroshima Carp v Yakult Swallows | W | 3-4 | |
Japan - NPB | 07/04 09:00 | 1 | Hiroshima Carp v Yakult Swallows | L | 7-1 | |
Japan - NPB | 07/02 09:00 | 1 | Hanshin Tigers v Yakult Swallows | L | 1-0 | |
Japan - NPB | 07/01 09:00 | 1 | Hanshin Tigers v Yakult Swallows | L | 12-6 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/28 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Yomiuri Giants | L | 0-9 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/25 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Lotte Marines | W | 14-3 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/23 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Lotte Marines | L | 3-10 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/22 04:30 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Orix Buffaloes | W | 4-3 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/21 05:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Orix Buffaloes | W | 11-3 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/20 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Softbank Hawks | L | 6-9 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/19 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Softbank Hawks | L | 2-7 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/15 05:00 | 1 | Nippon Ham Fighters v Yakult Swallows | W | 2-3 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/14 09:00 | 1 | Nippon Ham Fighters v Yakult Swallows | L | 7-6 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/13 09:00 | 1 | Rakuten Eagles v Yakult Swallows | L | 8-2 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/11 09:00 | 1 | Rakuten Eagles v Yakult Swallows | W | 0-1 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/09 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Seibu Lions | L | 2-5 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/08 05:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Seibu Lions | W | 9-5 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/04 09:00 | 1 | Orix Buffaloes v Yakult Swallows | W | 1-2 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/03 09:00 | 1 | Orix Buffaloes v Yakult Swallows | L | 5-0 | |
Japan - NPB | 06/01 05:00 | 1 | Softbank Hawks v Yakult Swallows | D | 3-3 | |
Japan - NPB | 05/31 09:00 | 1 | Softbank Hawks v Yakult Swallows | W | 4-11 | |
Japan - NPB | 05/29 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Nippon Ham Fighters | L | 7-14 | |
Japan - NPB | 05/28 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Nippon Ham Fighters | D | 4-4 | |
Japan - NPB | 05/26 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Rakuten Eagles | W | 4-1 | |
Japan - NPB | 05/25 09:00 | 1 | Yakult Swallows v Rakuten Eagles | L | 2-3 |
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows (Japanese: 東京ヤクルトスワローズ) are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams in Tokyo, the other being the Yomiuri Giants. They have won nine Central League championships and six Japan Series championships. Since 1964, they have played their home games at Meiji Jingu Stadium.
The Swallows are named after their corporate owners, Yakult Honsha. From 1950 to 1965, the team was owned by the former Japanese National Railways (known as Kokutetsu (国鉄) in Japanese) and called the Kokutetsu Swallows; the team was then owned by the newspaper Sankei Shimbun from 1965 to 1968 and called the Sankei Atoms. Yakult purchased the team in 1970 and renamed it the Yakult Atoms, before renaming it again as the Yakult Swallows in 1974, and then the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in 2006.