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The story
In the September 4th Yakult–Chunichi game, both teams repeatedly squandered scoring chance after scoring chance in a battle of botched at-bats, and the 5ch live-thread lit up with cries of a ‘historically garbage game.’ Chunichi loaded the bases with two outs in the 5th, loaded them again with one out in the 7th, and had a runner on 2nd with two outs in the 9th — all without scoring. Yakult, too, put runners on base almost every inning from the 3rd through the 9th without converting any of it into runs. As the rain grew heavier in the late innings, the game took on an even stranger atmosphere. The thread buzzed with sarcastic remarks like ‘this is basically art’ and ‘we’re watching a page of history,’ alongside comments debating the merits of individual plays like baserunning decisions.
What people said
You guys have zero intention of scoring, huh
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What even is this lol (草 = internet slang for LOL, literally "grass")
They're basically running a chindon-ya act (a loud, comedic street promo band) — dying laughing
My brain can't even replay this, it's too much (pun on pitcher name "Sugiuchi" and "sugiru," meaning "too much")
Just give 'em both a loss
This isn't even a real game anymore
Even X (Twitter) has this eerie vibe going
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5th: two outs, bases loaded
7th: one out, bases loaded (3 runners aboard via walks)
9th: two outs, runner on 2nd (got a hit, but the runner from 2nd was thrown out on the bases)
Yakult
3rd: two outs, runners on 1st & 2nd
5th: two outs, runners on 1st & 2nd
6th: two outs, bases loaded (2 walks, 1 hit-by-pitch)
7th: one out, runners on 2nd & 3rd
8th: two outs, runners on 1st & 2nd
9th: two outs, runners on 1st & 2nd (one runner thrown out on the bases along the way)
Trash vs. trash
Honestly feel so bad for both fanbases having to sit through this endlessly
Feels like about 100 hours have passed
Brutal lolololololol
I'm getting so irritated I might start hating baseball
Suffering from sheer weakness
"9-ru-4-mu" (wordplay spelling out "kurushimu," meaning "to suffer," using 9=ku and 4=shi)
This is gonna be talked about as a legendary game this whole season
Too beautiful
I'm sleepy
Feels like I'm getting heckled by the stands
Like an endless void of nothingness just keeps passing
This'll never happen again
Not gonna lie, there's something moving about witnessing a historic moment
This is way worse than sandlot ball, where at least a mistake usually leads to a run
Because they're piling mistakes on top of mistakes
Getting thrown out stealing off the catcher's own wild throw is basically art at this point
That's what you'd think, huh?
Really learned today just how painful it is watching a game where neither side seems to want to win
This is gonna be a legendary game
Honestly, witnessing a legend being made is genuinely moving
I think the memory of today's game is gonna stick with me for the rest of my life
Feels like the phrase 'historically shit game' was invented just for today
Still better than dragging this out till midnight and ending in a 1-1 draw though
And on top of that, a home run gets your hopes up right before — boom, right back down
But an abrupt, no-delay forced ending has its own kind of flavor too
As a piece of art I'd give it a perfect 100
There's a weirdly moving quality to it too
The real deal really is on another level
Truly in a class of its own
Background and Key Points of This Story
“Kuso jiai” (crap game) is well-worn 5ch slang for games marked by repeated weak at-bats and botched chances — it functions less as a jab at any individual player than as mockery of the game’s flow itself. This game blew up because both teams kept building scoring chances — two outs with the bases loaded, one out with the bases loaded, and so on — only to come away empty again and again; even in professional baseball, this degree of lopsided scoring inefficiency is rare. As the rain grew heavier through the game, some in the thread wondered aloud whether it might get called early due to weather. Note that the actual final score and how the game was ultimately settled are not stated in the thread — the discussion centers squarely on reactions to the repeated “chances squandered” pattern from the early innings through the late innings.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nanidemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Image] Yakult vs Chunichi turns into a historically garbage game.”
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