In Central League action on August 20, the Hiroshima Carp scored a walk-off win over the Chunichi Dragons, sweeping the three-game series 3-0. Chunichi’s loss — their fourth straight — came with a wild pitch from Abreu factored in. Over on 5channel (Japan’s largest anonymous forum), the Dragons’ slump became the talk of the thread, with posters slinging nicknames like “Zombie” and “Chuni-dora.” Commenters also traded plenty of opinions on managerial decisions and roster depth.
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Source: nikkansports.com / Original article here
6(｡･_･｡)ﾉ ◆jN6K3cbEWjLT Hunter [Lv.1629][SSR Weapon+120][UR Def Limit+102][1st-Dan Forest]2026/08/20(木) 20:55:39.70ID:b6GNxm2O0
There's our Chuni-dora, back again lol (a mocking portmanteau of "Chunichi" and "Dragons" used when the team is playing badly)
7Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 20:56:29.02ID:/Tl/CoB+0
Turns out "zombie" was a debuff, not a buff, huh. Well, I guess that tracks.
12Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 20:57:31.54ID:bAW2gLsE0
Chuni-dora can't even beat a Hiroshima team in the middle of a "zombie outbreak"
14Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 20:58:57.04ID:LtSLusXW0
>>12
Well, for what it's worth, the players under a cloud (Japanese shorthand for someone suspected of wrongdoing but not formally charged) have been pulled off the first team now…
28Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 21:05:06.36ID:SCMf8ANp0
Chunichi's too dang awful (´^ω^｀)
About the only pattern they've got left is a walk-off balk, innit
30Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 21:06:29.49ID:FhBWtDeN0
>>28
Didn't that already happen back in the Tatsu era? (nickname for former manager Kazuyoshi Tatsunami)
29Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 21:05:47.74ID:Woj+EsvW0
Getting swept 3 straight by a "zombie" Hiroshima that's missing its main players — how weak do you have to be?
34Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 21:07:52.09ID:AytWBuRc0
>>29
Well, they've dropped 3 straight to the one team they absolutely can't afford to lose to.
37Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 21:09:26.81ID:jAYzzUnj0
5-game win streak
→ "The dinosaur awakens! Our real fight starts now!!!"
And then
→ L-W-L-L-L-W-L-L-L-L, 2 wins, 8 losses
132Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 23:17:26.14ID:WqSUdfWp0
>>37
What is that, a rapid-express train that's only fast for one stretch? (a jab comparing the streak to a train that runs "rapid" briefly before reverting to a local, all-stops crawl)
57Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 21:30:24.05ID:Lh42JDEi0
So they're weaker than a zombie?
134Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 23:20:22.19ID:WqSUdfWp0
>>57
Honestly feels like watching a bait-and-switch ad game (Japanese gaming slang for a title whose ads oversell a much worse actual product)
61Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 21:34:32.06ID:EVbQOjp50
Was sending out a pinch runner for Montero really the move? If it'd gone to extras, Montero could well have come up again, so shouldn't they have kept the pinch runner in reserve as a card to play later?
80Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 21:56:19.99ID:A+0athJ10
>>61
With runners on first and third in a walk-off situation, the runner can advance to second for free since there's no force play to worry about — so you might as well try a delayed steal, which means sending in the pinch runner.
After the steal lands, ideally Sasaki gets a hit to seal it, but if they issue a declared intentional walk (Japan's version of an automatic IBB) to load the bases, then pinch-hit Akiyama.
With Akiyama up, the opposing pitcher's already rattled, so maybe he draws a walk.
That's probably the Carp bench's thinking.
62Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 21:34:33.49ID:uQeUNkwG0
Chunichi ought to get themselves tested for zombification. Only a zombie loses 3 straight to a zombie.
81Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 21:56:52.75ID:bwrJAnDY0
Heard the guy carrying Hiroshima is Dominican — did Chunichi lose their Dominican pipeline or something?
86Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 22:02:13.86ID:D+sJRa2n0
>>81
Abreu's Dominican too, though.
99Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 22:21:21.51ID:ViyClF/j0
They were still in the first-place race up through early summer last year too, so it's not like they're actually weak. Go for 3rd place with what's left of the season.
106Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 22:28:37.33ID:ViyClF/j0
>>99
Just to be clear, that was about the Carp.
Dragons, hang in there next season!
117Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 22:46:02.70ID:waqHnryt0
Ozone is northeast of central Nagoya, right? (the neighborhood where Nagoya Dome sits) Northeast has been considered the "demon's gate" (kimon) in Japan since ancient times — an inauspicious direction in traditional belief. Don't you kind of get a gloomy vibe off that direction?
123Anonymous2026/08/20(木) 22:53:54.06ID:gXaOohIL0
>>117
Chunichi had the best run in franchise history back in the 2000s though, that was their golden era.
149Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 00:25:37.10ID:dotDkgqo0
Hiroshima's a zombie, but Chuni-dora is just a plain corpse.
151Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 00:39:07.79ID:4mIUTkFy0
>>149
Hiroshima's players are the zombies, but for Chunichi it's the manager who's the zombie.
Inoue's results should've gotten him fired ages ago, and yet he just keeps managing on like the undead.
156Anonymous2026/08/21(金) 01:28:32.13ID:WY+Jjcnx0
>>149
Nope.
A rotting corpse.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “[Baseball] Central League: Carp 2, Dragons 1 [8/20] — Carp sweep series 3-0 with walk-off win, Chunichi’s Abreu wild-pitches his way into a 4th straight loss.”
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