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The story
On August 29, 2026, in the 7th inning of the Giants–Tigers game at Koshien Stadium, Hanshin’s Morishita was struck near the left hand by a pitch from Giants pitcher Akahoshi and was forced to leave the game injured. News reports described the stadium as “in an uproar” and said “fans from both sides got into a fight,” and it became a huge topic on 5ch’s live-game thread. Posts were split between those pushing back with “go watch the replay” over whether it was intentional, and others treating the beaning as amusing, while the thread’s discussion also spread to the Giants’ cold bats and Dalbec’s updated strikeout record.
What people said
Giants Acting Manager 118
Starting Lineups
[Giants] [Tigers]
4 Urata 8 Chikamoto
8 Sasaki 4 Nakano
7 Matsumoto 9 Morishita
3 Dalbec 5 Sato
2 Oshiro 3 Oyama
5 Sakamoto 7 Takadera
6 Izumiguchi 2 Sakamoto
9 Hirayama 6 Motoyama
1 Masahiro Tanaka 1 Otake
Don't really need the 5, 6, and 8 hitters — bit late to say that now, though
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/ffd2410d9155c464a0c038e68398c157121bf956
Top of the 7th, Morishita takes the hit-by-pitch (Photo: Iimuro Ippei)
https://i.daily.jp/tigers/2026/08/29/Images/f_20761023.jpg
Elbow guard, arm guard —
if he had one on, it's probably no big deal
(Leg guards are the shin protectors, for reference)
Wait, what happened — did he get hit again?
See the photo in Re: #13
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/ffd2410d9155c464a0c038e68398c157121bf956
Wait, it was for real? lol
This is bad news
Nice~
When's the last time fans actually brawled with each other
In the J.League, clubs get penalized even over supporter incidents,
but pro baseball has nothing like that
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/936b15c05c15d020b1a7b0b996d826d5675e3b1e
He's already broken it? Wonder how many strikeouts Hiroshima's Lance racked up
Because they're slipping the doctors money under the table
The team doctor is at Osaka Police Hospital
It's a hospital affiliated with the ball club
Each stadium has a designated on-call hospital
The Japan Sumo Association does the same thing for regional tournaments too — local designated affiliated hospitals
They clearly don't want to win
There were chances for infield hits both yesterday and today
But they run like it's an all-weather track instead of a dirt infield,
so they keep getting thrown out
Saw Jeff Williams at Osaka Police Hospital way back — he wasn't playing at all, so I figured his shoulder or elbow was done for, and sure enough that was his last year
Saw Fujinami at the prefectural Amagasaki hospital
He's huge so he stood out like crazy
They need to win at least one, or there's no point even talking about it
Can't say for sure
If they keep issuing intentional walks to the bottom of the order like today and it backfires,
there's no telling what happens
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Whether the hit-by-pitch was intentional is left to the umpire’s judgment, and opinions in the thread were split — some pushed back citing replay footage to argue it “wasn’t intentional.” Worth noting: the “Arlington rule” mentioned in the discussion is an unwritten rule in baseball about holding off on stealing bases late in a lopsided game, not an official rule. On the game itself, it was also a hot topic that the Giants’ Dalbec reached a franchise-record 153 strikeouts in a season, surpassing Kazuhiro Kiyohara’s 1997 mark. It’s also worth noting that the reported “fight between fans of both teams in the stands” wasn’t something detailed with eyewitness accounts within the 5ch thread itself — it’s simply a description from the source article being cited.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Hello!Project board) thread “Giants Acting Manager 119.”
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