The Central League-leading Hiroshima Carp only have one more game remaining against the last-place Chunichi Dragons, inexplicably the only CL team with a winning record against Hiroshima, this season.
Which means the two-time defending champions can get back to the task of finishing off their CL threepeat. The Carp have a magic number of nine, so it shouldn't be long now.
But even though the team's run to the promised land is about to reach its payoff, pitcher Daichi Osera still has a little more work to do.