The team won only 37 games in 1952, mostly on the back of ace Ryōhei Hasegawa, but ended with a .316 winning percentage, saving itself from being disbanded.

The Shochiku Robins ended the season in last place with a .288 winning percentage, and was merged with the Taiyo Whales.

Lutz ordered the team's cap to be changed to red to symbolize a never-ending fighting spirit[citation needed], and he hired Gail Hopkins and Richie Scheinblum.

[5] However, the team won its first ever league championship in 1975 to begin a memorable series of seasons with Lutz's replacement Takeshi Koba.

The Carp team became a powerhouse in 1978, hitting over 200 home runs in one season for the first time in Japanese baseball history.

Koji Yamamoto, Sachio Kinugasa, Jim Lyttle and Adrian Garrett formed the powerful Akaheru (meaning "Red Helmet") lineup, which won two consecutive pennants and Japan Series from 1979 to 1980, both against the Kintetsu Buffaloes.

One of the major reasons for the team's fall after that 1991 pennant was the lack of financial support it received from its sponsors[citation needed].

The team never signed any free agents, and was often forced to let go of star players because they could no longer pay their salaries (recent examples include Tomoaki Kanemoto, Akira Etoh, Andy Sheets, Nate Minchey, John Bale, Greg LaRocca and Takahiro Arai).

as both the ace Hiroki Kuroda and slugger Takahiro Arai were gone by free agency, their chance of entering of playoffs was not eliminated until the very end of the season (when only 3 games remained), and they finished fourth, closely behind the Chunichi Dragons.

After years of futility, the Carp finally regained success in 2016, finishing the regular season with NPB's best record and defeating the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in the Climax Series Final to advance to their first Japan Series since 1991, where they faced the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.

After the season Hiroki Kuroda, who had returned to the Carp in 2015 following a stint in Major League Baseball, retired.

The Carp again finished with the Central League's best record in 2017, but were upset by the BayStars in a rematch of the previous year's Climax Series Final.

In 2018, the Carp captured another Central League Pennant and swept the Yomiuri Giants in the Climax Series Final.

The Carp finished the 2019 campaign in fourth place, missing the playoffs by a half game and ending the team's run of three consecutive Central League Pennants.

The 2022 season would begin with a major loss for the Carp, losing star player Seiya Suzuki after getting posted to the Chicago Cubs.

[6] Ryoma Nishikawa moved to Orix Buffaloes by FA and replaced by Hidaka Atsumi joined the team.

They struggled mightily against the bottom-ranked Chunichi Dragons in both 2022 and 2023, sometimes dropping all three games in a row and often going scoreless for the entire season.

However, this season, except for the Softbank Hawks They all went 2-1,[10] And on June 7, in a game against the Chiba Lotte Marines.Daichi Ohsera became the 90th pitcher in history and the 102nd in the NPB to pitch a no-hitter.

From the second half of the season after the All-Star Game, offensive records and the home run count soared back up throughout the NPB.

This reflected poorly on the Carp's small-ball-heavy lineup, which hit only 52 home runs, 44 fewer than the previous season.

Combined with the collapse of the previously dominant pitching staff, they lost 20 games in September, falling from the top to missing the Climax Series in 4th place.

The former uniforms of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp are similar to the Major League Baseball team the Cincinnati Reds.

This type of cheering is also used when the Hiroshima Toyo Carp players go to bat at world championships and other events, such as the All-Star Game.

Checo achieved moderate success in Japan, leading to further imports which include later-MLB players Timo Pérez and Alfonso Soriano.

In 2004, the Carp started a pitching academy in Guangdong, China, in an attempt "to expand the range of baseball in Asia.

[23] The team's ball park, Yuu Baseball Ground is located approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Iwakuni in Yū, Yamaguchi.

[23] The team has other similar academies in other parts of the world, most notably, one in the Dominican Republic, which developed MLB great Alfonso Soriano.