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The story
The Chicago White Sox won 8-1 over the Tigers at home at Rate Field, despite a roughly four-hour rain delay, taking their three-game division series. They’ve now closed the gap on the division-leading Guardians to just one game. Munetaka Murakami, starting at cleanup and first base, went hitless but reached base three times via walks and a hit-by-pitch, driving in one run — his average held at .202, while his OPS stayed at .809. On 5ch, users debated why batting average doesn’t drop in a hitless game, questioned the rule that credits an RBI on a walk, complained about the confusing shorthand team abbreviations “Ho-gun” (White Sox) and “Ga-gun” (Guardians), and speculated on the wild card race.
White Sox Cruise to Win in Game Delayed Nearly 4 Hours by Rain, Close to Within 1 Game of Division-Leading Guardians — Murakami Draws 3 Walks/HBPs, Drives in 1 Run
○ White Sox 8–1 Tigers ● (Local time, September 18, Rate Field)
The Chicago White Sox took their four-game division series against the Detroit Tigers. Infielder Munetaka Murakami (26) started and played the full game batting cleanup at first base, reaching base three times and driving in one run.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
2023 Kyle Schwarber: 'Who cares if it's the .100s'
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He didn't even hit the ball, why's he getting an RBI?
He draws a ton of walks so his OBP stays decent, and a good chunk of his rare hits end up being home runs anyway.
His 'walk-begging' skills (drawing free passes) alone are major-league top class
Can we please retire this shorthand already
Shouldn't the wild card be fine though? The Astros and Blue Jays aren't pulling away.
No, I really want them to win the division no matter what — given how last year went, it'd be huge.
Didn't expect the Astros to be this underwhelming
Even with Alvarez actually staying healthy for once
Hope he can hang on to .800 somehow
Walks and HBPs don't raise your average, but they don't lower it either
Why did this vague shorthand even become the norm
Can't hit homers and his average keeps sliding
I don't really want to say it, but Imai is genuinely the one to blame
He's getting paid a big salary, so he shouldn't have switched teams so casually like some prospect
The team has completely peaked and is on the decline now
This year they were only in the race because the Mariners stumbled on their own — nobody actually thought they could contend for the division
Schwarber did that and nobody remembers it
The opposing pitching staff was just terrible
They gave up 9 walks/HBPs in today's game alone
Just waiting around for it is exhausting
What are they gonna do if global warming makes the weather worse and it just keeps raining?
Are they planning on running triple-headers or something?
Cut the number of games already
Won't every team just end up with a dome stadium eventually?
Back then a lot of team names actually had '軍' (gun, meaning 'corps/army') built right in.
Tokyo Kyojin-gun (Giants), Hanshin-gun, Hankyu-gun, Nankai-gun, Kinki Nippon-gun, Nagoya-gun, Nagoya Kinshachi-gun, and so on.
.200 average, .798 OPS
.200 average, .802 OPS
The impression is completely different
The first one just screams 'total garbage'
Background and Talking Points
MLB rain delays have no time limit, so waiting nearly four hours to resume, as happened here, isn’t unusual. The shorthand terms “Ho-gun” and “Ga-gun” used on 5ch are a holdover from the days when Japanese pro baseball teams like the Tokyo Giants (Kyojin-gun) and Hanshin (Hanshin-gun) used “-gun” (“corps/army”) in their names; posters now loosely apply the same convention to MLB teams, though several complained it’s hard to parse at first glance. The gap between Murakami’s .202 average and .809 OPS reflects that he racks up his on-base numbers largely through walks and hit-by-pitches. Batting average uses at-bats as its denominator, which excludes walks and HBPs, so a hitless game doesn’t actually lower it. Under MLB’s standard rules, a walk that brings a runner home still counts as an RBI, so it isn’t unusual for a player to get credited with an RBI without a hit. Some posts in the thread singled out pitcher Imai as the one “to blame,” but that’s one poster’s personal take, not a definitive explanation for the team’s slump.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[MLB] White Sox Cruise to Win in Game Delayed Nearly 4 Hours by Rain, Close to Within 1 Game of Division-Leading Guardians — Murakami Draws 3 Walks/HBPs, Drives in 1 RBI, .202 Average, .809 OPS.”
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