Week in Review: May 7 - 13

A 3-2-1 record for the Dragons over the past week.  They won the series against the Swallows, their first series win against the Swallows this year.  They won their game in Toyohashi 1-0!!!  Then had a bit of an offensive explosion in the game the next night in Gifu, before returning to the Nagoya Dome for a loss on Wednesday.  They split the weekend series in Hiroshima 1-1-1.  Inter-league play begins on Tuesday against the Marines.  The Pacific League has had the upper hand recently, but Chunichi has normally done better in it than the other CL teams.

• Takeshi Yamasaki is back at ichi-gun, Masahiko Morino, Maximo Nelson and Kenshin Kawakami are supposed to be back from injury in the near future, possibly this week.
• Good week for Tony Blanco, with 3 multi-hit games and 2 multi-homer games.
• Shuhei Takahashi got his first NPB hit, a double, on May 11th against the Carp.