NPB: How to stay up-to-date with the action

It's pretty hard to follow the action in the japanese NPB league, especially the games in the Central League, since there seem to be no streams for any of the matches. And when there are they are strictly limited to a japanese audience. In times of teams and sports looking for new chances of revenue and income all the time that can be considered to be rather anachronistic, I guess. Sports like football and leagues like the English Premier League seem to be willing to do anything to draw new crowds to their games and they even discussed an extra day of play at the end of the season in foreign countries, so the fans in Asia and elsewhere can watch there stars live instead of on the screen.
Now I know and take into consideration that baseball isn't a game like football and the only countries paying a huge attention to it are the US, the carribean states and some countries in east Asia. But still it's kind of sad that people interested in what's happening in the NPB get left out if they don't live in Japan.
I for my part would find it extremly interesting to watch a game of a Hanshin Tigers - Yomiuri Giants series, because of what I have read about the rivalry between the two teams. The only thing to do is to watch some wort of live ticker on the website of one of the teams or check the result elsewhere. I finally managed to memorize the kanji which are used for the different teams, so i now can read the table on the NPB homepage.
You can read the articles on some of the english sites of japanese newspapers afterwards, but it will always take a few days before the articles get published.
In the Tiger's case there is a great blog which keeps track of what's happening with the team where you can find a lot of information. But pictures can be rarely found anywhere.
Sometimes though some footage finds its way over here thorugh places like youtube so I was pretty thrilled to find the final inning of the final game of the series there (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). Hanshin were down 2-3 and turned it around against the dominating Giants closer Marc Kroon, who holds the record for throwing the fastest pitch (161 km/h) in the NPB. The noise at Koshien is deafening and I always find it interesting how the baseball crowd sounds younger than, let's say, a football crowd. Their voices seem to be a little bit higher.
Anyway, it's nice to at least get a glimpse of what is happening over there. It's better than nothing.