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This is a live-commentary thread from 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyō” (Live Sports Commentary) board, posted the moment Shohei Ohtani crushed a go-ahead two-run homer. Ohtani had been stuck in a batting slump since the start of the postseason, and word was going around that he’d only returned to the lineup “after some kind of personal negotiation” — so the homer landed right as that story was breaking. The thread lit up with celebration, but plenty of cooler heads chimed in too, arguing that “in the postseason, results are all that matter.” Manager Dave Roberts’s comment that he “couldn’t pull Ohtani because the man himself insisted on playing” also became a talking point, fueling debate over the injury rumors and the reasoning behind keeping him in the lineup.
What people said
(haven't even watched the game though)
That's a sign he's turning it around
More like a wobbly little fly ball he just barely got a piece of, not really a liner
Kinda scary
A 'good-looking' out means absolutely nothing
The only thing 'out there' is his gut! 🤣w
Drop the first three games of a series and your elimination odds are basically 98%
They don't bother with the little things like moving runners along — just a swing-for-the-fences team
No amount of effort is gonna fix that
Guess he's anxious 'cause he can't hit
Looks almost relieved when he gets hit by a pitch
Fine if a homer comes, but it's not coming
Once these start popping up, it's pretty much over
This is shaping up to be the year everyone finally admits Ichiro was right
Wait, are Chunidora fans who push for 'just hit homers to score' baseball actually insane?
The Brewers are winning it all for the first time……
Probably kept his sanity knowing someone else was doing even worse than him
'Win thanks to Ohtani's walk!'
Yeah, TV news is gonna spin it exactly like that, no joke
They keep hitting him or walking him, only throwing to the very edges of the zone
Pretty sure that pitcher just has bad control lol
Like in Game 2 they straight up challenged him near the middle of the zone and got him out easy lol
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The backdrop to this thread is that Ohtani’s hitting had been harshly criticized for several games since the start of the postseason, set against the unforgiving postseason standard where “results matter more than individual performance.” Manager Dave Roberts’s remark that he “couldn’t pull Ohtani because the man himself insisted on playing” also got folded into the conversation, repeatedly raising the image of a player who keeps taking the field despite carrying an injury. Where opinions in the thread split was over whether to read this one home run as “a sign he’s turning it around” or “just a lucky result” — disagreement even extended to whether the batted ball was a line drive or just a weak fly ball. There was also pushback against the Dodgers’ “just swing for it” style of baseball, which fed into a renewed appreciation for the Ichiro-era value placed on situational hitting and advancing runners — though it’s worth noting this is likely just emotional venting unique to a win-or-go-home postseason series, not a season-long statistical trend.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (“Nandemo Jikkyō”) thread “Shohei Ohtani hits go-ahead two-run homer wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
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