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The story
In Game 2 of the Central League Climax Series on October 11, third-place DeNA beat second-place Yomiuri Giants 4-1, clinching the Final Stage with back-to-back wins. The Giants’ game ended with a listless, half-hearted swing-and-miss in the last inning, and the thread lit up over the lack of fight in that final at-bat and the lineup’s weakness since late in the season. Jokes bordering on conspiracy theories about acting manager Hashigami’s in-game calls also flew around, and opinions were split on how the team stacks up against first-place Hanshin, who awaits in the Final Stage.
DeNA 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 |4
Giants 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 |1
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Source: nikkansports.com / Original article here
What people said
Seriously, right
That swing had total 'whatever, I don't care anymore' energy
Maybe he's already been told he's getting traded
'See? Told you guys needed me, didn't I?'
If he were in charge they probably wouldn't even have made the CS lol
If that were the plan, you'd do it tomorrow.
You've gotta cash in some revenue first before bowing out.
They simply can't hit at all
it's that the Giants are too weak in short series, isn't it?
Was that Reynolds' retirement game or something?
Yeah, seriously, he looked way too unmotivated
Hanshin's not gonna like this
They'd have had it easier if the Giants had made it through
but in a short series there's nothing you can do about this lack of firepower
The roster wasn't fully settled in the first half
In the end, letting Yamamoto go turned out to be the right call (thanks, Ogata)
Then again, there's always the All Blacks
I feel like the Giants haven't beaten the BayStars (DB) in the CS for several years now
Man, those conspiracy-theory brain endorphins feel good
It's NPB, not the team, that sells Japan Series tickets
A total give-up swing lol
Hanshin's getting swept 3-0 by Yokohama for sure
3 wins won't be enough (Hanshin starts the Final Stage with a 1-game advantage)
Nah, Hanshin's is clearly way better than that
Exactly, right? Maybe they're like Frieren, holding back and hiding their true power (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End — the heroine who conceals how strong she really is)
Background and Points of Debate
In the Climax Series First Stage, the 3rd- and 2nd-place teams face off in a best-of-three with no advantage win, a format used since 2015. This time, DeNA took Games 1 and 2 back-to-back, locking up their Final Stage spot early. What split the thread was whether the Giants’ batting slump comes down to individual players or to managerial decisions and roster moves (such as letting go of pitcher Yamamoto). Some read the final-inning strikeout as a ‘half-hearted swing,’ while others chalked it up to simple timing issues, and jokes bordering on conspiracy theories about acting manager Hashigami’s in-game calls made the rounds too. Opinions were likewise split on how the team compares to first-place Hanshin, who awaits in the Final Stage — a difference rooted in how each team’s form shifted between the first and second halves of the season.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Baseball] Central League CS Game 2: G 1-4 DB [10/11] — DeNA Advances to CS Final Stage with Back-to-Back Wins, 2nd-Place Giants Eliminated.”
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