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In the Pacific League clash between Rakuten and Nippon-Ham, Rakuten cruised to a 6-0 win behind Kenta Maeda’s walk-free complete-game shutout, two hits and two RBIs from Murabayashi, and a bases-clearing double from Ota. Nippon-Ham fell to their latest loss in a growing skid. On 5ch, while plenty of posters praised Maeda’s outing, opinion split over Nippon-Ham’s shaky defense, whether manager Tsuyoshi Shinjo’s announcement that he’ll stay on was the right call, and his lack of a pennant title.
Rakuten 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2｜6
Nippon-Ham 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0｜0
[Batteries]
Source: nikkansports.com / Original article here
What people said
Today was a shutout, but they've been putting up runs all along
The loaded rich-boy trash team is also on a losing streak against Rakuten lol (a jab at a big-spending rival club, implying money can't buy wins)
Such a waste that he was off form until well past the midseason mark
That's not what we're talking about.
Their scoring hasn't actually dropped off, you know
The Ham front office is great at player development (young guys just grow on their own), but their manager hires are awful.
Letting Kuriyama run the team forever and all that — they always take the easy way out.
They're not about to leave that kind of embarrassing record on the books.
But last year the Ham had the second-most wins in franchise history
So what? Did that win them the pennant?
A pennant race isn't decided by one team's win count alone, lol
Seriously, that 'treasure' guy is too dumb for words (mocking a poster who parrots Shinjo's catchphrase of calling fans his "treasures")
Re: #22
Guess you've only watched today's game, huh
Yesterday's game too, you bandwagon Ham trash lol
Found the bandwagon fan who didn't watch yesterday's game lol
No joke, it wouldn't be surprising if they rack up 96 errors this season.
Write that, and the idiot obsessed with "zombie-Pon-trash + big blunder + 96 season errors" will show up again, desperate as ever.
The Carp really are hopeless after all
And among them, the ultra-stingy former owning family and their underboss-like exec Kiyoaki Suzuki are just way too awful (just look at how they handled the "zombie cigarette" incident and the grilled-fork controversy).
Serves you right, Ham trash lolololol
How many times are you gonna copy-paste that by yourself lol
is a troll's catchphrase too, huh
Before becoming a player beloved by fans, BIGBOSS Manager Tsuyoshi Shinjo says you need to cherish and love every single fan as a treasure first.
You forgot your usual losing-team sob poem, Ham trash! (a mocking term for the maudlin posts losing fans tend to write)
Someone with a way with words, DM Shinjo and talk him into quitting. I really can't take it anymore.
They're still in a growth phase, so it's fine, it's fine
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
What split the thread was the debate over how to judge Nippon-Ham manager Tsuyoshi Shinjo. One post defended him by noting that last year’s team posted the second-most wins in franchise history, while another countered that a pennant race isn’t decided by one team’s win total alone — a distinction between raw win count and actual title contention that’s easy to overlook. Kenta Maeda, meanwhile, is a pitcher who joined Rakuten this season after time in MLB and had struggled to find his form until partway through the season, so this shutout is being cited as an example of his turnaround. Notably, the discussion around Nippon-Ham mixes praise for their player development with frustration over managerial appointments — two separate issues worth reading as distinct threads of argument.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Baseball] Pacific League F 0-6 E [9/24] Rakuten’s winning streak continues — Kenta Maeda: 2 hits allowed, walk-free complete-game shutout; Murabayashi: 2 hits, 2 RBI; Ota: bases-clearing double — Nippon-Ham’s losing streak continues.”
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