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The story
Climax Series Central League Final Stage Game 2 was played on October 15, with DeNA defeating Hanshin 1-0 to improve to 2 wins and 1 loss. Maki’s solo home run proved to be the game-winner, and Hanshin’s lineup stayed cold right to the end. During the game, Morishita appeared to hurt his leg while running to first base and was replaced, raising concerns about whether he’ll be able to keep playing. On the thread, reactions ranged from questioning a Climax Series format that lets the pennant-race leader Hanshin get overtaken, to pointing out the team’s lack of offseason reinforcements, to worrying about Morishita’s injury.
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Hanshin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 0
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Source: nikkansports.com / Original article here
What people said
But then again, is it really fair for the Baystars — who phoned in the pennant race — to snipe the title away from a Hanshin team that fought tooth and nail to win it?
This is what happens when you botch your offseason reinforcements and then have to scramble mid-season to bring in Ogata and Reynolds just to keep up.
They coasted through the first half of the pennant race with a comfortable lead,
and then got run down hard by the Baystars in the second half.
https://x.com/tomoyapisuke/status/2110683011188752511
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Morishita grounds out to second (basically a shortstop grounder) — and it's meet, goodbye!
That celebration special could've waited until the advantage situation was actually settled.
No, honestly — it absolutely should have waited.
we went and won this one off a single solo homer.
The Kansai local broadcasts are way too obnoxious, so keep it going just like this.
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0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
If they get shut out again tomorrow they should just rename themselves the Hanshin Takoyaki-ers.
At least then they could finally clean house on the useless coaching staff.
Feel so bad for Morishita and Satoteru (Sato Teruaki)…
With Sato Teruaki and Morishita both out, this Hanshin team can't even be trusted to finish in the top 3 anymore.
That had me on edge.
Wasn't today's starter Murakami — no, Takahashi?
How do you even lose with that lol
Well, that's 18 innings without scoring now.
They've only given up 3 runs, but they haven't scored a single one either.
That was supposed to stir up a whole new controversy.
In MLB, the Astros won their division at an exact .500 winning percentage.
It's just as messed up over there.
How do you hurt your leg just running to first base?!
Were they just playing possum all season?
More like they had injuries piling up in the first half and couldn't field a real team.
#YahooNews https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/7fdab8f686ada79ef2fc05743e5e64b7f8282980
This right here is the reason for the anemic offense.
The team's current advisor: "it's the lost game sense—" (echoing a familiar old excuse)
We genuinely don't need the Climax Series.
I'm not even a Hanshin fan, but that's how I feel.
Alright then, name 14 Hanshin players you don't like.
Hanshin needs 3 more wins to get there.
Which means the Baystars are actually the ones sitting in the better position right now lol
and demand a 2-win advantage or whatever lol
Don't embarrass yourselves, don't even say it.
MLB teams don't go around demanding advantages like that, right?
In the Pacific League's playoff format that never actually happened, a 1-game lead meant a 1-win advantage.
The playoff was only supposed to trigger if 1st and 2nd place finished within 5 games of each other, but every single year the gap ended up being 5+ games, so it was never held.
Sounds like he tweaked his hamstring while running the bases.
Can't quit it, lol
Background and key points of this story
Under the Climax Series format, the pennant-race winner — Hanshin — enters the Final Stage with a built-in one-win advantage; counting that advantage, the current series stands at 1 win, 2 losses for Hanshin. Because of this asymmetric setup, Hanshin needs 3 more wins to advance while DeNA needs only 2 more to reach the Japan Series, which is why the thread raised questions about the format’s fairness. As for the lineup’s slump, some pointed to an article quoted in the thread noting that key position players had been kept out of game action right before the Climax Series, though that was a front-office decision and no direct cause-and-effect can be confirmed. As for Morishita’s injury, the post-game diagnosis hasn’t been made public yet, so for now it remains speculation.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Baseball] Central League CS Game 2: T 0-1 DB [10/15] DeNA wins again, now 2-1 — Maki’s go-ahead homer, Hanshin loses again… Morishita hurt too?“
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