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During the Seibu–Nippon-Ham game at Belluna Dome on September 12, Nippon-Ham pitcher Ito Taiga and Seibu coach Kuroda Tetsushi got into a heated shouting match mid-game, with an angry-looking Kuroda storming toward the mound. Players poured out of both dugouts and things briefly turned into a tense standoff, though it never escalated to blows. On 5ch, a post claiming to be from someone watching in person spread the account that “Coach Kuroda kept heckling Ito persistently about how he was handling the rosin, and Ito snapped back at him — that’s what set it off.” Some questioned why a coach, rather than a player, was the one front and center in the confrontation, while others speculated that the recent decline in on-field brawls might be linked to team policies banning casual chatter and greetings between players.
9/12 (Sat) 19:35
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“Seibu vs. Nippon-Ham” (September 12, Belluna Dome)
Source: topics.smt.docomo.ne.jp / Original article here
What people said
Though I watch a ton of them in MLB.
Makes sense they've declined — you could get criminally charged for violence these days.
Maybe he's just a good coach lol
You're the worst one here
Looked to me like Ham's starter Ito was the one picking a fight with Seibu
894 Anonymous Commentator (Au Au Kee Sad3-T/Hs [182.249.57.15]) 9/12 (Sat) 2026 19:36:56.99 ID:SJHGY/VXa
FYI I was there in person, up in the stands
Kuroda kept relentlessly heckling Ito (probably about the rosin)
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Ito snapped and yelled back
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Kuroda lost it even harder
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Near-brawl
Probably got told something like "I'm a Sawamura Award pitcher — what have you ever done?"
Coach, don't let your ego show
Kuroda: "Rosin! Rosin!"
Ito: "What's Lu Xun (Rojin) got to do with anything?"
Kuroda: "Diary of a Madman" (Lu Xun's novel — "kyōjin nikki" in Japanese)
Ito: "Who said anything about the Giants (Kyojin)?"
Probably went something like that, who knows
That's totally normal in MLB. These old-school "proper baseball" geezers need to get with the times.
That's the biggest mystery here lol
He was being weirdly aggro, it's hilarious
Maybe he just wanted to get out of there fast
Some managers love stealing the spotlight from players too lol
What's that got to do with Hiroshima?
Mixing soy sauce and sauce together is actually pretty good
It's miso you put on tonkatsu, obviously
This has nothing to do with the sign-stealing Hawks (SoftBank)
"Ha~te~shi~nai" ("Endless" — a line from Matsuyama Chiharu's hit song)~♪
Chiharu: "Well, y'know, since NACK5 is based in Saitama I probably shouldn't say this too loud, but — I was born in Hokkaido. So if you're asking which side I'm on, well, I don't think I need to spell it out, do I?"
Listener: "Chiharu, that's some real backbone! Speaking your mind even on a Saitama station — I'm falling for you all over again!"
(This is purely fiction)
I just heard that in Chiharu's voice in my head
Wait, does Niiyama talk like that…oh wait, it's Matsuyama
Feels like it's only a matter of time before another Nakata Sho type shows up and causes trouble.
Shinjo's got nothing to do with this lol
Background and Key Points
Pitcher Ito Taiga is Nippon-Ham’s ace, who became the youngest-ever winner of the Sawamura Award in 2021, while Coach Kuroda Tetsushi is a veteran who has coached for Seibu for nearly 20 years since retiring as a player. Brawls in Japanese pro baseball have been on the decline in recent years, and some in the thread speculated this might be linked to team policies discouraging casual chatter and greetings between players — though this is only speculation from posters, not something officially confirmed by the teams. The trigger for the clash was said to be “heckling over rosin,” but this too is based only on an anonymous post claiming to be from someone watching in person, and neither the teams nor those involved have given an official account of what happened.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “Stadium in an Uproar: Nippon-Ham’s Ito Taiga and Seibu Coach Kuroda Tetsushi Nearly Come to Blows — Kuroda Storms Toward the Mound in Anger, Both Benches Empty in a Tense Standoff.”
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