2009 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season

The 2009 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season features the Eagles quest to win their first Pacific League title.

Contents

Regular season

Standings

Pacific League		 G W L T Win% GB
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 144 82 60 2 .577 —
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 144 77 66 1 .538 5½
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 144 74 65 5 .532 6½
Saitama Seibu Lions 144 70 70 4 .500 11
Chiba Lotte Marines 144 62 77 5 .446 18½
Orix Buffaloes 144 56 86 2 .394 26

Game log

2009 Game Log
April
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record
1 April 3 @Fighters 1 - 3 Iwakuma (1-0) Darvish (0-1) Arime (1) 42,328 1-0-0
2 April 4 @Fighters 5 - 6 Gwyn (1-0) Fujii (0-1) Kawagishi (1) 36,316 2-0-0
3 April 5 @Fighters 6 - 9 (11) Kawagishi (1-0) Sakamoto (0-1) 34,252 3-0-0
4 April 7 Hawks 6 - 0 Tanaka (1-0) Loe (0-1) 17,281 4-0-0
5 April 8 Hawks 0 - 7 Houlton (1-0) Asai (0-1) 13,373 4-1-0
6 April 9 Hawks 2 - 1 Nagai (1-0) Otonari (0-1) Koyama (1) 12,418 5-1-0
7 April 10 Lions 0 - 6 Wakui (2-0) Iwakuma (1-1) 15,990 5-2-0
8 April 11 Lions 2 - 5 Onodera (1-0) Hasebe (0-1) Graman (2) 17,835 5-3-0
9 April 12 Lions 4 - 1 Rasner (1-0) Wasdin (0-1) 17,477 6-3-0
10 April 14 @Marines 1 - 2 Tanaka (2-0) Watanabe (0-1) 9,247 7-3-0
11 April 15 @Marines 7 - 1 Karakawa (1-1) Asai (0-2) 16,235 7-4-0
12 April 16 @Marines 11 - 7 (10) Sikorski (2-1) Koyama (0-1) 13,984 7-5-0
13 April 18 @Buffaloes 0 - 7 Iwakuma (2-1) Kondo (2-1) 20,598 8-5-0
14 April 19 @Buffaloes 15 - 0 Kishida (2-0) Rasner (1-1) 21,561 8-6-0
— April 21 Marines Postponed (rained out)
15 April 22 Marines 2 - 0 Tanaka (3-0) Watanabe (0-2) 12,909 9-6-0
16 April 23 Marines 2 - 5 Ono (1-1) Hasebe (0-2) Ogino (1) 11,444 9-7-0
17 April 24 @Hawks 2 - 3 Nagai (2-0) Wada (1-2) Gwyn (1) 27,568 10-7-0
18 April 25 @Hawks 5 - 4 (11) Mahara (1-0) Asai (0-3) 31,021 10-8-0
19 April 26 @Hawks 0 - 4 Rasner (2-1) Sugiuchi (2-1) Koyama (2) 31,787 11-8-0
20 April 28 Fighters 2 - 4 Yagi (1-0) Kawai (0-1) Takeda (5) 13,326 11-9-0
21 April 29 Fighters 2 - 1 Tanaka (4-0) Takeda (1-1) 20,381 12-9-0
22 April 30 Fighters 4 - 2 Hasebe (1-2) Sweeney (0-2) Arime (2) 11,239 13-9-0
May
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record
23 May 1 Buffaloes 12 - 2 Nagai (3-0) Nakayama (0-2) 12,262 14-9-0
24 May 2 Buffaloes 7 - 3 Iwakuma (3-1) Komatsu (0-3) 20,246 15-9-0
25 May 3 Buffaloes 8 - 4 Koyama (1-1) Kishida (3-1) 20,619 16-9-0
26 May 4 @Lions 8 - 3 Kishi (5-0) Kawai (0-2) 33,911 16-10-0
27 May 5 @Lions 3 - 7 Isaka (1-0) Ishii (1-3) 33,908 17-10-0
28 May 6 @Lions 3 - 6 Hasebe (2-2) Nishiguchi (2-1) 31,440 18-10-0
29 May 8 @Marines 4 - 3 Shimizu (1-2) Nagai (3-1) Ogino (3) 13,263 18-11-0
30 May 9 @Marines 2 - 6 Iwakuma (4-1) Ono (1-3) 24,668 19-11-0
31 May 10 @Marines 6 - 0 Karakawa (3-2) Rasner (2-2) 24,023 19-12-0
32 May 12 Fighters 1 - 8 Yagi (3-0) Isaka (1-1) 10,231 19-13-0
33 May 13 Fighters 7 - 3 Tanaka (5-0) Sakamoto (0-2) 13,983 20-13-0
34 May 14 Fighters 0 - 7 Sweeney (1-3) Hasebe (2-3) 10,677 20-14-0
35 May 15 Hawks 2 - 4 Falkenborg (2-0) Koyama (1-2) Mahara (5) 11,338 21-14-0
36 May 16 Hawks 1 - 2 Iwakuma (5-1) Kamiuchi (2-1) 17,768 21-15-0
— May 17 Hawks Postponed (rained out)
37 May 19 Swallows 3 - 7 Ishikawa (6-1) Rasner (2-3) 12,691 21-16-0
38 May 20 Swallows 2 - 0 Tanaka (6-0) Sato (2-3) 19,295 22-16-0
39 May 22 Giants 2 - 12 Gonzalez (4-0) Nagai (3-2) 20,170 22-17-0
40 May 23 Giants 1 - 7 Utsumi (1-3) Iwakuma (5-2) 20,599 22-18-0
41 May 24 @BayStars 2 - 5 Hasebe (3-3) Kobayashi (1-4) Aoyama (1) 18,041 23-18-0
42 May 25 @BayStars 6 - 5 Kudoh (1-1) Aoyama (0-1) 18,696 23-19-0
43 May 27 @Dragons 2 - 3 Tanaka (7-0) Takahashi (1-1) Aoyama (2) 32,208 24-19-0
44 May 28 @Dragons 2 - 1 (10) Nagamine (1-0) Aoyama (0-2) 28,262 24-20-0
— May 30 Carp Postponed (rained out)
45 May 31 Carp 4 - 5 Otake (5-1) Iwakuma (5-3) Nagakawa (15) 18,015 24-21-0
June
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record
46 June 1 Carp 0 - 2 Saito (3-3) Hasebe (3-4) Nagakawa (16) 10,402 24-22-0
47 June 2 Tigers
48 June 3 Tigers
49 June 5 @Swallows
50 June 6 @Swallows
51 June 7 @Giants
52 June 8 @Giants
53 June 10 Dragons
54 June 11 Dragons
55 June 13 BayStars
56 June 14 BayStars
57 June 17 @Carp
58 June 18 @Carp
59 June 20 @Tigers
60 June 21 @Tigers
61 June 26 @Buffaloes
62 June 27 @Buffaloes
63 June 28 @Buffaloes
64 June 30 @Fighters

Player stats

Batting

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI SB

Pitching

Player G GS IP W L SV ERA SO

References

2009 All-Star Series • 2009 Japan Series • 2009 Asia Series
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