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.
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