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The story
In Central League play on September 6, the Yomiuri Giants beat the Hiroshima Carp 4-0, completing a three-game sweep. Starter Shinnosuke Ogasawara threw a complete-game shutout on just four hits, while Yuta Izumiguchi’s three-run homer — his 7th of the season — proved to be the decisive blow. On 5ch, reactions ranged widely: comparisons of Ogasawara’s pitching tempo now versus his days with the Chunichi Dragons, debate over the gap between NPB and MLB sparked by a pitcher who flopped in the majors throwing a shutout, skepticism about the official attendance figures, and speculation about how the pennant race will play out.
Giants 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 ｜4
Carp 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ｜0
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Source: nikkansports.com / Original article here
What people said
(2020) 1st Giants 59 2nd DeNA 38 3rd Chunichi 36
(2021) 1st Giants 56 2nd DeNA 51 3rd Yakult 50
(2022) 1st Giants 65 2nd Yakult 59 3rd DeNA 58
(2023) 1st Giants 64 2nd Yakult 63 3rd Chunichi 51
(2024) 1st DeNA 51 2nd Hiroshima 46 3rd Giants 44
(2025) 1st Chunichi 51 2nd Yakult 49 3rd Giants 47
(2026) 1st Giants 57 2nd Yakult 53 3rd Hiroshima 45
As of end of day, September 5, 2026
Trying to win the pennant by beaning the other teams' best players left and right? That's some nerve 💢
As long as there's a cap on foreign-player roster spots, it'd be strange if there weren't a gap. The paychecks are different too.
They've got Monday off too.
Just too good.
That's basically what Togo looked like in his prime.
Can't even laugh at the 'Tax League' anymore, lolol (a snide nickname Japanese fans use for Korea's KBO)
It's like watching a zombie lol 🧟
That's just hindsight talk, though. If the Giants had come out ahead there, they might've gone on to sweep Yakult and DeNA too.
He's getting run support, and maybe it helps that his catcher isn't Kinoshita.
Not that different, really — feels like he's throwing more curveballs. Also, Una (Ogasawara's nickname) has stamina for days, so the right call is to let him keep pitching as long as possible. Pull him early like '666' does and Una gets pissed.
On the flip side, if the First Stage is at Koshien against DeNA, that's pretty dicey.
Saturday: 32,000
Sunday: 29,000
That many people showed up and they still put on a garbage game — don't need a team like that.
Subtract 7,000 from that and you've got the real number.
Friday: 11,000
Saturday: 30,000
Sunday: 20,000
Going by how the stands actually looked, this is the real attendance.
Congrats.
Might actually happen — Giants taking the pennant for real.
Depends on the next series against the Dragons, though.
Background and talking points
Shinnosuke Ogasawara made his name as a homegrown pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons before joining the Giants this season, and the thread was full of comparisons between his pitching form and tempo before and after the move. A ranking of hit-by-pitch totals was also cited — an annual tally of how many batters each team’s pitching staff has hit, a number baseball fans often bring up as a measure of wildness or command. The Central League pennant race remains a tight scramble even into September, so this three-game series drew extra attention for what it might signal about the Climax Series matchups. Meanwhile, some posts questioned whether the officially announced attendance figures matched what fans felt they saw in the stands, though that has not been verified as of this writing. Note that the original thread also contained discriminatory posts targeting specific regions and ethnicities, which have been excluded from this summary.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Sokuhou+) thread “[Baseball] Central League C 0-4 G [9/6] Giants win third straight — Ogasawara throws 4-hit shutout, Izumiguchi hits 3-run homer (No. 7) — Carp can’t reach third base, swept in three straight.”
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