2009 Orix Buffaloes season

The 2009 Orix Buffaloes season features the Buffaloes quest to win their first Pacific League title under their current franchise configuration.

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	@Hawks	8 - 0	Wada (1-0)	Komatsu (0-1)		30,106	0-1-0
2	April 4	@Hawks	2 - 5	Kondo (1-0)	Oba (0-1)	Kato (1)	28,827	1-1-0
3	April 5	@Hawks	2 - 1 (10)	Kamiuchi (1-0)	Kawagoe (0-1)		29,576	1-2-0
4	April 7	@Lions	8 - 3	Kishi (1-0)	Kaneko (0-1)		24,011	1-3-0
5	April 8	@Lions	2 - 10	Yamamoto (1-0)	Ishii (0-1)		10,001	2-3-0
6	April 9	@Lions	13 - 6	Nishiguchi (1-0)	Hirano (0-1)		9,813	2-4-0
7	April 10	Marines	10 - 8	Katsuki (1-0)	Shimizu (0-2)		27,827	3-4-0
8	April 11	Marines	5 - 2	Kondo (2-0)	Kobayashi (0-1)	Kato (2)	30,444	4-4-0
9	April 12	Marines	4 - 1	Kishida (1-0)	Ono (0-1)	Kato (3)	31,597	5-4-0
10	April 14	@Fighters	7 - 8	Kaneko (1-1)	Tadano (1-1)	Kato (4)	17,548	6-4-0
11	April 15	@Fighters	11 - 5	Kikuchi (1-0)	Motoyanagi (0-1)		17,579	6-5-0
12	April 16	@Fighters	7 - 1	Takeda (1-0)	Nakayama (0-1)		20,702	6-6-0
13	April 18	Eagles	0 - 7	Iwakuma (2-1)	Kondo (2-1)		20,598	6-7-0
14	April 19	Eagles	15 - 0	Kishida (2-0)	Rasner (1-1)		21,561	7-7-0
15	April 21	Lions	1 - 7	Kishi (3-0)	Kaneko (1-2)		10,326	7-8-0
16	April 22	Lions	6 - 3	Yamamoto (2-0)	Ishii (0-2)		10,805	8-8-0
17	April 23	Lions	2 - 1	Kato (1-0)	Onuma (0-1)		10,586	9-8-0
18	April 24	Fighters	0 - 11	Darvish (3-1)	Komatsu (0-2)		18,724	9-9-0
—	April 25	Fighters	Postponed (rained out)
19	April 26	Fighters	11 - 3	Kishida (3-0)	Sakakibara (0-1)		13,223	10-9-0
20	April 28	@Marines	3 - 4	Kato (2-0)	Sikorski (2-2)		13,198	11-9-0
21	April 29	@Marines	3 - 5	Kaneko (2-2)	Watanabe (0-3)	Kato (5)	24,756	12-9-0
22	April 30	@Marines	5 - 2	Ito (1-1)	Kikuchihara (0-1)		12,212	12-10-0

May

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
23	May 1	@Eagles	12 - 2	Nagai (3-0)	Nakayama (0-2)		12,262	12-11-0
24	May 2	@Eagles	7 - 3	Iwakuma (3-1)	Komatsu (0-3)		20,246	12-12-0
25	May 3	@Eagles	8 - 4	Koyama (1-1)	Kishida (3-1)		20,619	12-13-0
26	May 4	Hawks	8 - 5	Kondo (3-1)	Loe (0-4)	Kato (6)	30,252	13-13-0
27	May 5	Hawks	2 - 1	Kaneko (3-2)	Houlton (2-2)		31,639	14-13-0
28	May 6	Hawks	1 - 5	Otonari (1-2)	Yamamoto (2-1)		30,960	14-14-0
29	May 8	@Fighters	10 - 1	Darvish (4-1)	Nakayama (0-3)		26,638	14-15-0
30	May 9	@Fighters	3 - 2	Fujii (2-1)	Komatsu (0-4)	Takeda (7)	26,308	14-16-0
31	May 10	@Fighters	7 - 2	Takeda (2-1)	Yoshino (0-1)		28,156	14-17-0
32	May 12	Lions	5 - 6	Kishi (6-0)	Kondo (3-2)	Onodera (2)	10,502	14-18-0
33	May 13	Lions	3 - 8	Ishii (2-3)	Yamamoto (2-2)		10,454	14-19-0
34	May 14	Lions	1 - 3	Nishiguchi (3-1)	Kaneko (3-3)	Onodera (3)	10,229	14-20-0
35	May 15	Fighters	2 - 4	Darvish (5-1)	Nakayama (0-4)	Takeda (8)	11,405	14-21-0
36	May 16	Fighters	3 - 7	Fujii (3-1)	Komatsu (0-5)	Takeda (9)	21,965	14-22-0
37	May 17	Fighters	6 - 0	Mitsuhara (1-0)	Takeda (2-2)		19,467	15-22-0
38	May 19	Carp	1 - 9	Otake (3-1)	Kondo (3-3)		9,887	15-23-0
39	May 20	Carp	10 - 3	Yamamoto (3-2)	Maeda (2-5)		11,107	16-23-0
40	May 22	Tigers	8 - 3	Kaneko (4-3)	Ando (3-3)	Kato (7)	23,433	17-23-0
41	May 23	Tigers	3 - 7	Atchison (3-1)	Vogelsong (0-1)		28,031	17-24-0
42	May 24	@Giants	6 - 8	Hirano (1-1)	Tono (2-3)		42,110	18-24-0
43	May 25	@Giants	6 - 2	Takahashi (3-1)	Kondo (3-4)		40,057	18-25-0
44	May 27	@Swallows	5 - 4	Matsuoka (3-0)	Katsuki (1-1)	Lim (15)	12,014	18-26-0
45	May 28	@Swallows	4 - 0	Tateyama (6-0)	Mitsuhara (1-1)		7,348	18-27-0
46	May 30	BayStars	6 - 4	Kaneko (5-3)	Glynn (2-6)	Kato (8)	11,217	19-27-0
47	May 31	BayStars	3 - 0	Hirano (2-1)	Kobayashi (1-5)		14,857	20-27-0

June

#	Date	Opponent
48	June 2	Dragons
49	June 3	Dragons
50	June 5	@Tigers
51	June 6	@Tigers
52	June 7	@Carp
53	June 8	@Carp
54	June 10	Giants
55	June 11	Giants
56	June 13	Swallows
57	June 14	Swallows
58	June 16	@BayStars
59	June 17	@BayStars
60	June 20	@Dragons
61	June 21	@Dragons
62	June 26	Eagles
63	June 27	Eagles
64	June 28	Eagles
65	June 30	@Hawks

Player stats

Batting

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI	SB

Pitching

Player	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	ERA	SO

References

2009 Nippon Professional Baseball season

Central League	Chunichi Dragons Hanshin Tigers Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tokyo Yakult Swallows Yokohama BayStars Yomiuri Giants

Pacific League	Chiba Lotte Marines Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Orix Buffaloes Saitama Seibu Lions Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

2009 All-Star Series 2009 Japan Series 2009 Asia Series

Orix Buffaloes

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Ballparks	Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium Kyocera Dome

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