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The story
On September 19, 2026, a 5ch live thread following the Giants–Dragons game at Tokyo Dome lit up. Early on, a tense glove play had fans debating a pitcher’s reflexes — “Reaching out with your hand there was a mistake, that’s a grounder you have to trust the second baseman on and let go through” — but the lineup then flipped the game with three straight RBI hits. “How long has it been since we saw three consecutive RBI hits?” fans marveled, with some calling for starter Masahiro Tanaka to stay in the game, and a bit of banter with Tigers fans over the Giants having swept the Dragons in a three-game series that same week.
What people said
Giants Acting Manager 141
Starting Lineups
【Giants】 【Dragons】
8 Matsumoto 4 Fukunaga
4 Yoshikawa 6 Muramatsu
6 Izumiguchi 7 Hosokawa
3 Dalbec 3 Sano
2 Ohshiro 5 Ishikawa Taka
5 Sakamoto 8 Okabayashi
7 Maru 9 Hanada
9 Sasaki 2 Ishii
1 Tanaka Masahiro 1 Nakanishi
and that's a grounder you have to trust the second baseman on and let go through anyway.
Meanwhile, the ones who are going to be real prospects know to just let it go by.
Reaching on reflex at a come-backer liner is just
a pitcher's habit.
Sakamoto: "Wait, you talking about me?"
Let's ride this as far as we can and get Ma-kun the win.
You got swept 3 straight by that 'miso' team, so you've got no right to be mad.
We shaved a game off your magic number while you were busy losing, so don't complain even more.
If we'd taken first place there, we'd have basically invited the blue-shell curse in (a Mario Kart reference — jinxing yourself by taking the lead too soon).
The moment Cho-niki came back to the Giants, they slumped.
The moment Cho-niki retired, they won it again.
Yeah, that's actually a thing.
But they won three straight pennants (one of them a Japan Series title) WITH Cho-niki on the roster, didn't they? lol
Background and Talking Points
As its title “Giants Acting Manager 142” suggests, this thread is the 142nd installment of a live-commentary series where a new thread gets started as the game progresses. On 5ch’s baseball live-commentary board, it’s standard for a thread to fill up with replies and then spill over into a new one, at-bat by at-bat — so a high thread number is itself a sign of just how lively the discussion around a game was. In the thread, “Chunidora” refers to the Chunichi Dragons, “Chin” refers to the Hanshin Tigers, and “our team” refers to whichever club the poster is rooting for — common shorthand on the baseball board, and this kind of in-group slang shows up constantly whenever posters mention an opponent or another team. There was also talk of a “jinx” tying a particular player’s presence on the roster to the team’s wins and losses, but it’s worth noting this isn’t grounded in any actual cause and effect — it’s the kind of superstition-tinged storytelling baseball fans love to indulge in.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (“Hello Pro” board) thread “Giants Acting Manager 142.”
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