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The story
A thread about the Giants vs. Yakult game at Tokyo Dome. In the heat of the pennant race, with a win meaning first place, the Giants fell behind starting in the first inning due to baserunning blunders and shaky pitching control. Posters traded blame over the questionable baserunning calls and pitcher usage that led to the early runs, with comments like “those two idiots in the first inning wrecked everything” and “our team is cursed to never have a better winning percentage than Hanshin.” Adding to the tension, the Hanshin–DeNA game later that evening could also swing the outcome of the pennant race.
What people said
Giants Acting Manager Thread 143
Starting Lineups
【Giants】 【Yakult】
7 Matsumoto 9 Masuda
4 Yoshikawa 6 Nagaoka
6 Izumiguchi 3 Osuna
3 Dahlbeck 7 Santana
2 Ōshiro 5 Matsushita
5 Sakamoto 8 Iwata
9 Hirayama 4 Uchiyama
8 Sasaki 2 Matsumoto Nao
1 Ogasawara 1 Takahashi
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/4c94163c34e496f43dfe4374e4a767d212f6ab77
Congrats on the pennant, Hanshin
75
Yesterday we were smashing hits left and right, today it's a 1-0 nail-biter loss
Ōtemachi (the Yomiuri/Giants front-office HQ)
"You get it, right, Hashigami-kun?"
Seriously, cut their salaries.
Seriously, that was a total 'Roomba operation' (bumbling around the bases like a robot vacuum)
So much for that slim game-back margin lol
Score in that inning no matter what
All the way to the lead
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/07cc13ffa52037871f7738db2bf6cdfec8cf1757
Only thing left is to swing for the fences and homer
Haven't gotten one in a while now
Background and Key Points
The Central League is in the closing stretch of a pennant race between the Giants and the Hanshin Tigers, and on this day a Giants win over Yakult would have put them in first place. The thread pins the early runs on a first-inning baserunning gamble (taking a risky extra base that ended in a close-call out), with posters directing more frustration at the coaching decisions than at individual players. The thread also frames the day’s outcome as tied to the Hanshin–DeNA game later that evening, since its result would directly affect the pennant race. As this is a live thread, it captures only fragmentary, in-the-moment commentary — the final result of the game and any resulting standings changes are not settled within the scope of this thread.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello!Project board) thread “Giants Acting Manager Thread 144.”
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