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The story
In Central League play on September 18, the Hanshin Tigers beat the Hiroshima Carp 2-1 to extend their winning streak. Starter Kotaro Otake worked seven scoreless innings, and back-to-back RBI hits from Teruaki Sato and Yusuke Oyama in the 4th gave the Tigers the lead. Kudo closed it out in the ninth. On 5ch’s live-game thread, posters praised Otake’s strong outing and voiced confidence in catcher Torai Fushimi, who has been holding down the position while the team’s regular catcher is out — though plenty also flagged the shaky defense after shortstop Seiya Kinoura dropped a fly ball, leaving opinion split.
Hiroshima 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 | 1
Hanshin 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 X | 2
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Source: nikkansports.com / Original article here
What people said
Weren't you guys on a losing skid until just recently lol
Absent from Japanese society
What's the deal with that trash Re: #7 cheering on zero contribution to Japan
Re: #2-10 00
Absent from Japanese society
What's the deal with that trash Re: #29 glorifying zero contribution to Japan
Re: #2-10 00
Go rescue Murakami, whose stock has completely cratered
Even after that brutal losing streak
If this guy actually came through in the clutch
we'd be on a 9-game win streak and champions by now
Pitchers of record
Winning pitcher: Otake, Hanshin (6-9, 0 SV)
Losing pitcher: Morishita, Hiroshima (6-11, 0 SV)
Save: Kudo, Hanshin (3-0, 10 SV)
woken up yet?
He's hitless again today
He'd definitely be a hit over there
The anti-Tigers trolls should quit yapping and just let him get posted already
Around 70 pitches through 7 innings
He could've easily gone for a Maddux (a complete-game shutout thrown on under 100 pitches)
The Giants-Dragons game too, you know lol
Nobody — fans or players — actually expects to win the Japan Series anyway lol
He got the leadoff batter to hit into an easy out and it still turned into an error — rough on the pitcher too
Tanaka will probably get hit for the Giants, but Chunichi's Nakanishi looks shaky too.
Ma-kun will probably hold it to around 5 innings, 3 runs, right?
Question is whether our offense can top that.
Yeah, it's likely Otake was getting hit because the opponents had read catcher Sakamoto's tendencies.
Stick with Fushimi tomorrow too — should be fine.
Kinoura's no good. Can't trust him out there if he's dropping fly balls like that.
Motoyama should be the shortstop.
Maekawa chasing pitches out of the zone is a problem.
He needs to stop swinging at balls completely.
Sato needs to stop rushing and chasing pitches out of the zone.
If he stays calm and looks for strikes to hit, he'll naturally start hitting more.
Staying patient and laying off bad pitches, like Morishita and Oyama do, is what matters.
So you're saying write off Sakamoto's track record entirely and run Fushimi for the Climax Series and Japan Series too —
and if that ends in blowing the pennant and an early exit, you're fine just shrugging it off? lol
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/d6d9a5988036ea2e8f37047e3f9b19e4def6d91b
Like one TV special could ever change the team's form —
taking out your frustration over a loss on Udo,
there really are a lot of grown adults acting like idiots
Also, today he was ahead in the count all game, working at an insane pace
Think that was his best outing of the year
That's thanks to Fushimi.
I'd been thinking it was strange that Otake and Murakami were getting hit around this much.
There's a good chance Sakamoto's habits behind the plate were being read by opponents.
They should be giving Umeno regular starts too.
Murakami only gave up 1 run last time out, that barely counts as 'getting hit'
The losing streak was on the offense not hitting at all
You're just spinning the narrative to get Umeno reinstated lol
Murakami hasn't been getting hit
They'll get knocked out by DeNA before it even gets that far
8-16 lol
Sakamoto still doesn't have a single hit this month — you're way late noticing that
During the losing streak I was only checking final scores
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
What decided this game was Kotaro Otake’s pitching — 5ch posters praised his economical outing, holding Hiroshima scoreless over seven innings on roughly 70 pitches. Per the official record, the winning pitcher was Otake (6-9), the losing pitcher was Hiroshima’s Morishita (6-11), and the save went to Kudo (3-0, 10 SV). The thread was especially split over the starting-catcher question: some posters backed keeping Fushimi behind the plate in place of Sakamoto, while others argued the proven Sakamoto should be brought back before the Japan Series. Another sticking point was infield defense, with several posters criticizing Kinoura’s shaky handling of a fly ball at shortstop. That said, pitch-count claims like ‘around 70 pitches’ or ‘Maddux-caliber’ reflect posters’ impressions from following the game live, not confirmed official figures — worth keeping in mind.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Express+) thread “[Baseball] Central League: Tigers 2-1 Carp [9/18] — Tigers win again, Otake goes 7 scoreless, back-to-back RBI hits from Teruaki Sato and Oyama, Carp drop another.”
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