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The story
In Pacific League play on September 5, SoftBank beat Seibu 2-0 for their third straight win, holding Seibu to just 4 hits in a shutout loss that stretched Seibu’s losing streak to three games. Starter Otsu worked 7 scoreless innings, and Kurihara chipped in 2 hits and 2 RBI. SoftBank now leads second-place Seibu by 7 games with their magic number down to 14, edging closer to a long-awaited third straight Pacific League pennant. A first-inning replay review over whether a runner had reached second base also became a talking point, with posters split on a play that was tough to call from video alone.
Seibu. ０ ０ ０ ０ ０ ０ ０ ０ ０｜０
SoftBank １ ０ ０ ０ ０ １ ０ ０ Ｘ｜２
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Source: nikkansports.com / Original article here
What people said
Korokoro (flip-flopper)
Ponko (dated ethnic slur)
Treasure
96 wins
Big idiot
Copycat
Hokkaido native
Dentsu
Geezer
Scrub
One-year (contract)
lol (lit. "grass")
Non-tender
Dodgers
Arashi's catchphrase
But wait, Kamichatani's starting tomorrow —
was he really out there coaching Uchida on her ceremonial first-pitch form before today's game…?
A line from a Downtown bar-hopping segment a few years back
If you've ever left Fukuoka, you'll know this is true
That long-awaited third straight Pacific League pennant is coming into view
They don't seem to have much of an inferiority complex against the Fighters lately
There's a 3-game series in Fukuoka next week, so it probably comes down to that
Honestly, I'd rather Seibu stayed in second
It's like they let them win just to get cocky before the big stumble at the end
What was Genda even appealing about?
He was appealing that Shuto never touched second base
Otherwise they wouldn't bother with a replay request
Genda was staring right at it, so maybe so
From the replay footage, it looks like he touched it
You don't need to "step on" the base
Just "touching" it is enough
It's not about whether he stepped on it,
it's about whether he made contact —
even with a toe or the side of the foot, contact is all it takes
Rare, but not unheard of
I think the Hanshin Tigers dropped theirs by 3 last year
In the Pacific League, when records are tied, the magic number is decided by head-to-head results between the teams in question
If the number of draws is equal,
once a team takes the head-to-head lead, the magic number can drop by as much as 3 at once if the conditions line up
It was a close call
That's why the review took so long
It really wasn't that long
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The Pacific League magic number is a rough measure of how many more wins are needed to clinch the pennant, and depending on other teams’ results, it can drop by more than one in a single game. The thread got into the rule that when winning percentages are tied, head-to-head results between the teams involved decide the tiebreaker — with posters recalling a past case where the number dropped by 3 in one game once the right conditions lined up. The other point of debate was the first-inning replay review, centered on whether the runner at second base had actually reached the bag. Under baseball’s rules, a runner is safe as long as they “touch” the base rather than fully “step on” it — contact from a toe or any part of the body is enough. That standard can be hard to judge from video alone, and it’s a detail that’s surprisingly not well known.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisoku Sokuho+) thread “[Baseball] Pacific League H 2-0 L [9/5] — Hawks win again, Otsu 7 scoreless innings, Kurihara 2 hits 2 RBI, Seibu shut out on 4 hits for 3rd straight loss”.
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