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On September 15, 2026, the Central League’s Giants game saw an early lead slip away, and 5ch’s live-commentary thread lit up with sarcastic remarks like “You can sense Hanshin and the Giants’ iron resolve to absolutely never win the pennant.” The thread’s main focus was the chaotic scramble for the Central League’s final standings — the Giants’ shortage of reliable starting pitchers, a worn-out bullpen, and the possibility of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars climbing to 2nd place, since they still have five head-to-head games left against Hanshin. Opinions split on pitcher management, with some arguing the team should quickly write off lost causes and others favoring grinding it out.
What people said
Hanshin finishing 3rd seems more likely — they've still got 5 games left against Yokohama
Hashigami's the type to just write off a lost game
Hara never gave up no matter what, but that ended up wrecking the bullpen anyway
Still, aren't the Giants just… not good right now?
Honestly, it's wild they were even in pennant contention with this roster in the first place
Ogasawara just got lit up the day before yesterday
Takemaru only shut down Hanshin and Hiroshima's dead lineups — before that he was awful all second half. Rough outlook
Every team's saying "we don't wanna win it!"
(*^◯^*) "We're taking it!"
Hold on, isn't "Chu" (Chunichi) basically a mole, backstabbing us here!
Hanshin's in a total slump on the MBS broadcast countdown and still has 5 games left against Yokohama, so they'll probably drop
Yokohama actually overtaking the Giants… seems pretty tough
But Yokohama finishing 2nd is definitely plausible
Though with the game gap this big, that's basically impossible
Not necessarily — if the Giants (mockingly nicknamed the "Fake Giants") can win against teams besides Yokohama
The "Zombie" (nickname for Yakult's late-season comeback habit) is hopeless against the Giants, and they've still got 5 games left, so that's a tall order
Hanshin's already conceded the first run, lmaooo
Some brutal baserunning just bailed Hanshin out
He's already out
Akahoshi's pitching now
Just play like that from the start!
There was that whole mess when their starting catcher suddenly vanished
Not sure why, but apparently unlike everyone else, one win and they're already "champions"
Losing the catcher wasn't the half of it — every attempt to reinforce the rotation flopped too
And on top of that, Nishidate got knocked out in the 3rd yesterday too, but they came back and went into extras — that's exactly why this is happening now
If you're gonna play what-if, it's less "those two" — who were beat up anyway — and more "if Jackson had stuck around"
Just let Kobayashi pitch
Kobayashi was warming up in the bullpen just the other day too, right?
As long as they peak from September on, just grabbing a CS (Climax Series) spot gives them a shot
No way that's true
Going this long without a pennant would be way too much of a joke
Besides, they've only actually won the CS once, two years ago
Background and Key Points of This Thread
By mid-September, the Central League has turned into a scramble among the teams already out of pennant contention, all fighting for 2nd and 3rd place and a shot at the Climax Series (CS) — and this thread reads more clearly in that light. The core of the discussion is that the Giants are entering the final stretch with a thin starting rotation (the names mentioned were basically just Inoue, Takemaru, and Ogasawara) and a worn-down bullpen, while Yokohama (DeNA) still has five head-to-head games left against Hanshin, fueling talk that they could climb to 2nd. Opinions split over managerial philosophy — whether to write off games early as lost causes, or grind it out the way manager Hara used to — a recurring debate around how the Giants handle their pitching staff. There’s also a passing reference to “the incident where the starting catcher suddenly vanished,” though the thread never spells out the details, so that remains unclear. On the whole, this was a thread less about the standings themselves and more about hunting for reasons why the team’s talent has fallen off so sharply.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (“Nandemo Jikkyo G”) thread “Giants Croak in the First Inning WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.”
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