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The story
In the Giants-Carp game at Mazda Stadium on September 23, Takemaru held Hiroshima to one earned run over 5 2/3 innings for his 11th win, and the bullpen held on as the Giants came from behind to win 2-1. For Hiroshima, it was a night of one mishap after another — Tokoda took the loss despite allowing zero earned runs. The Giants enter their final 7 games still 1.5 games behind first-place Hanshin, but the thread’s mood was mixed, with some fans shrugging that a win doesn’t even matter, since it was already over yesterday, reflecting cooled enthusiasm for the pennant race. Midway through the game, discussion shifted to the defense of Hiroshima’s starting catcher Mochimaru, sparking a broader debate about the team’s catcher problems.
What people said
Giants Manager (Acting) Thread 149
Starting Lineups
[Giants] [Carp]
7 Matsumoto 8 Nakamura Sho
4 Yoshikawa 4 Kikuchi
6 Izumiguchi 9 Suekane
3 Dahlbeck 3 Sakakura
2 Oshiro 5 Sasaki
5 Sakamoto 7 Fabian
9 Hirayama 2 Mochimaru
8 Sasaki 6 Katsuta
1 Takemaru 1 Tokoda
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Matsuyama, huh. He got let go last year and is with Oisix now (an independent-league team).
Giants 2-1 Carp
Final
W: Takemaru
S: Martinez
L: Tokoda
Takemaru: 5.2 IP, 1 ER, his 11th win
Hotta: 0/3 (retired 0 of 3 batters)
Nakagawa: 1/3 (retired 1 of 3 batters)
Tanaka Ei: 1 IP, 0 ER
Morita: 1 IP, 0 ER
Martinez: 1 IP, 0 ER
Dahlbeck: 2 hits
Yoshikawa, Izumiguchi, Sasaki: 1 hit each
1.5 games behind first-place Hanshin
7 games remaining
No wonder he wants out of there.
Ugh, come on Kero-jima, see it through to the end.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/8116f68435185620d907a4c219be14b8b3a17bc7
[Giants] Come back to beat Carp, win despite zero RBIs. Takemaru goes into the 6th, allows 1 run for his 11th win. Nakagawa snuffs out a bases-loaded, two-out jam in the 6th. Go-ahead runs score on the opponent's fielder's choice and error. Matsumoto picked off.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/1fa3ff571d5decf90e42ec9d7448a33598db5519
TBS NEWS DIG cranked that out at lightning speed, here it comes━(°∀°)━!
Maru's about done too — really only gritty Kikuchi and Suzuki (now with the Cubs) are still standing from that group.
Kind of a shaky pair of starters, honestly.
Throw Mochimaru in there too (sarcastic — his error helped the Giants win)
Never seen a team before where a guy this bad defensively, who can't hit either, is the starting catcher.
They even tried moving Sakakura back behind the plate — that's how bad it is.
Is Aizawa just finished at this point?
Even if he came over to our squad, guess he couldn't be used as catcher
Maybe he's next year's third baseman?
Guess manager Arai's stress is making him quicker to snap lately.
And here I thought he'd already been confirmed to stay on.
Background and Talking Points
As of September 23, the Giants sit in 2nd place, 1.5 games behind first-place Hanshin, heading into a tense final stretch of 7 games. In this game against Hiroshima, Takemaru picked up his 11th win, but the Giants had zero RBIs — the win came purely from 2 runs that scored off Hiroshima errors and a fielder’s choice. The thread showed a mix of resignation, with some saying it was already over yesterday, and others still holding out hope, reflecting the uneven mood around the pennant race. Separately from the game itself, discussion kept circling back to how Hiroshima’s former starting catcher Sakakura was pulled from behind the plate after being diagnosed with the yips off a .000 caught-stealing rate, and to Mochimaru’s shaky defense — pointing to a chronic catcher problem within the Carp organization that goes beyond the result of any single game.
*This article was compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello Project board) thread “Giants Manager (Acting) Thread 150.”
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