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The Central League’s first-place Hanshin Tigers were shut out in all three games of their Climax Series matchup against the third-place Yokohama DeNA BayStars, marking the first time in CS history a team has been blanked three games running. Their scoreless streak reached 27 innings, breaking the previous record of 25 innings set by the Yomiuri Giants back in 2015. On 5ch, posters buzzed with questions about how Hanshin even won the regular season in the first place, jokes about the slumps of key players like Morishita and Teruaki Sato, and speculation about how this might affect Sato’s rumored contract talks for a move to MLB next season.
What people said
But the 1st-place team got crushed by the 3rd-place team?
Wait, WHAT????
Tateishi's gonna spiral again.
This one's going to be a real legend.
That just shows how insane this record really is.
The postseason record for consecutive scoreless innings was 25, so they just broke it.
Because Morishita, Sato, and Haruto put up monster-level numbers.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/00fcc2c6c339c311c0ced5cb68e6070c7e057174
They just took the record away from the Giants.
Beating a Yomiuri record is a good thing no matter how you slice it.
Who's pitching for Yokohama tomorrow?
Could they actually pull off another shutout?
Azuma is basically an upgraded version of today's Katayama.
They're getting shut down by guys like Katayama and Ogata, so honestly nobody could hit off them right now.
And meanwhile Hanshin heads into their backup rotation!
I wonder who'll rack up more hits: Maki, or the entire Hanshin lineup.
Yeah, well, it's Hanshin, of course.
Actually, those two WERE pretty much the only reason they won.
Someone's probably already made it.
Honestly, that guy seems like the type who'd actually sue over it, so maybe don't.
That's a human rights violation.
Nakano — 2
Takadera — 2
That's the whole list.
Whaaaaat?!!!
…to a 3rd-place team, no less.
Yokohama actually fumbled a lot of strategy calls and made plenty of mistakes,
so it's not even like they're THAT dominant.
Hiroshima was scoreless in both games, but Game 2 ended in a scoreless tie, so that technically wasn't a shutout loss.
'Win the Japan Series and I'll post you for MLB!' 😡😡😡😡😡
👆 Guess that settles it then.
Just let the guy go already.
He went from a two-category batting title to a triple crown the very next year — just let him go already, lol.
You can even go back for seconds.
Background and Key Points
As posters in the thread pointed out, this 27-inning scoreless streak surpasses the previous postseason record of 25 innings set by the Yomiuri Giants in 2015 — and the number says less about strong opposing pitching than about a lineup in total collapse. The observation that hits over the last two games were almost entirely limited to two apiece from Nakano and Takadera underscores just how completely the regular season’s core hitters, led by Morishita and Teruaki Sato, went silent. A first-place team getting swept and shut out by a third-place team is itself a rare occurrence, and most of the thread’s reaction centered on sheer disbelief at how unexpected the result was. The mentions of Sato’s MLB transfer talks stem from speculation that this outcome could influence the front office’s future decisions — nothing was actually settled within the thread itself.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyou G board) thread “Hanshin (mockingly dubbed ‘Han-chin’) shut out three straight games in CS history, lmaooo”.
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