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This is a live-thread discussing the September 29, 2026 Giants vs. Hiroshima Carp game at Tokyo Dome. Starter Togo turned in a dominant outing, holding the Carp to just one hit, prompting fans to ask, “When was the last complete-game shutout?” Meanwhile, the Tigers’ own game that day was rained out, leaving their pennant-clinching magic number unchanged at 4, while the Giants’ win narrowed the game gap to 1.5. The thread mixed celebration of Togo’s performance with grumbling about bullpen usage and managerial decisions, plus plenty of trash talk aimed at Tigers fans.
What people said
Giants Acting Manager 155
Starting Lineups
[Giants] [Hiroshima]
8 Matsumoto 8 Nakamura(S)
6 Izumiguchi 6 Katsuta
7 Maru 4 Kikuchi
3 Dalbec 5 Sakakura
2 Ohshiro 7 Akiyama
4 Yoshikawa 3 Sato(K)
5 Richard 9 Suekane
9 Hirayama 2 Ishihara
1 Togo 1 Tamamura
Once it gets as long as Kai's —
let's get married
Saito had already put two runners on by the 8th — one via walk, one via error
No way lol
Re: #117
No way lol
Re: #115
No way lol
The pitching staff is doing its job
With the 'Make Legend' lineup we'd be on a 9-game winning streak
And yet there are people out there demanding the pitchers never allow a single run
Go complain about the hitters instead — that's exactly why the manager keeps failing
It's 1-3, so that's actually 2 wins in a row! …probably
Even while they're leading, the mood is completely ours!
These are the fans who didn't even boo after getting demolished in the final game at Vantelin Dome
If we win the head-to-head matchup, the game gap drops to zero…
The Tigers' game was rained out; with the Giants' win, the pennant magic number stays at 4
The game gap is now '1.5' 😢
If the Tigers go .500 the rest of the way (4 wins, 3 losses)…
🐰the Giants cannot win the pennant
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HTYUovtboAAXxze.jpg
Someone's panicking, panicking lol
Because he's on the 'Abe quota' (slang implying manager Abe keeps him in the lineup regardless of performance)
Because the manager's still holding a grudge over him striking out repeatedly in sac-fly situations before
Maybe we should all do a full dogeza apology… (dogeza = kneeling floor apology)
Background and Talking Points
This thread wasn’t actually posted on the regular baseball live-thread board, but on a Hello! Project (idol) board instead. When the official live-thread boards get overloaded near the end of the pennant race, 5ch threads sometimes get moved to a different board as a makeshift “shelter,” and this appears to be one such case. Also, the “magic number 4” mentioned in the thread is a figure calculated from the combination of wins the Tigers still need and losses other teams accumulate — it can move up or down based on other teams’ results even when the Tigers themselves aren’t playing. That day, the Tigers’ game was rained out, so the magic number itself didn’t change; only the game gap narrowed, because the Giants won. A common misunderstanding is treating “the game gap narrowed” as automatically meaning “the pennant race got closer” — the magic number and the game gap are actually separate metrics.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “Giants Acting Manager 156.”
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