2009 Saitama Seibu Lions season

The 2009 Saitama Seibu Lions season features the Lions quest to win back-to-back Japan Series titles.

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	@Marines	2 - 5	Wakui (1-0)	Shimizu (0-1)	Graman (1)	30,041	1-0-0
2	April 4	@Marines	10 - 5	Komiyama (1-0)	Hoashi (0-1)		26,819	1-1-0
3	April 5	@Marines	6 - 5	Sikorski (1-0)	Graman (0-1)		24,313	1-2-0
4	April 7	Buffaloes	8 - 3	Kishi (1-0)	Kaneko (0-1)		24,011	2-2-0
5	April 8	Buffaloes	2 - 10	Yamamoto (1-0)	Ishii (0-1)		10,001	2-3-0
6	April 9	Buffaloes	13 - 6	Nishiguchi (1-0)	Hirano (0-1)		9,813	3-3-0
7	April 10	@Eagles	0 - 6	Wakui (2-0)	Iwakuma (1-1)		15,990	4-3-0
8	April 11	@Eagles	2 - 5	Onodera (1-0)	Hasebe (0-1)	Graman (2)	17,835	5-3-0
9	April 12	@Eagles	4 - 1	Rasner (1-0)	Wasdin (0-1)		17,477	5-4-0
10	April 14	@Hawks	3 - 5	Kishi (2-0)	Loe (0-2)	Graman (3)	14,451	6-4-0
11	April 15	@Hawks	2 - 2 (12)	Game tied after 12 innings			26,498	6-4-1
12	April 16	@Hawks	5 - 12	Nishiguchi (2-0)	Otonari (0-2)	Hirano (1)	25,538	7-4-1
13	April 17	Fighters	2 - 4	Darvish (2-1)	Wakui (2-1)	Takeda (2)	15,181	7-5-1
14	April 18	Fighters	4 - 6	Tanimoto (1-0)	Shotsu (0-1)	Takeda (3)	28,525	7-6-1
15	April 19	Fighters	6 - 8	Miyanishi (1-0)	Onodera (1-1)	Takeda (4)	22,315	7-7-1
16	April 21	@Buffaloes	1 - 7	Kishi (3-0)	Kaneko (1-2)		10,326	8-7-1
17	April 22	@Buffaloes	6 - 3	Yamamoto (2-0)	Ishii (0-2)		10,805	8-8-1
18	April 23	@Buffaloes	2 - 1	Kato (1-0)	Onuma (0-1)		10,586	8-9-1
19	April 24	Marines	3 - 1	Wakui (3-1)	Karakawa (1-2)		12,618	9-9-1
20	April 25	Marines	2 - 3	Naruse (1-0)	Hoashi (0-2)	Ogino (2)	23,147	9-10-1
21	April 26	Marines	5 - 11	Omine (1-0)	Wasdin (0-2)		23,647	9-11-1
22	April 28	Hawks	5 - 4	Kishi (4-0)	Loe (0-3)	Onodera (1)	16,151	10-11-1
23	April 29	Hawks	7 - 2	Ishii (1-2)	Houlton (2-1)		28,855	11-11-1
24	April 30	Hawks	5 - 8	Mizuta (1-0)	Doi (0-1)	Mahara (4)	15,720	11-12-1

May

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
25	May 1	@Fighters	1 - 2 (12)	Onuma (1-1)	Tateyama (1-2)	Nogami (1)	28,007	12-12-1
26	May 2	@Fighters	7 - 6 (11)	Takeda (1-0)	Nogami (0-1)		34,711	12-13-1
27	May 3	@Fighters	6 - 5 (12)	Tanimoto (2-0)	Onodera (1-2)		40,754	12-14-1
28	May 4	Eagles	8 - 3	Kishi (5-0)	Kawai (0-2)		33,911	13-14-1
29	May 5	Eagles	3 - 7	Isaka (1-0)	Ishii (1-3)		33,908	13-15-1
30	May 6	Eagles	3 - 6	Hasebe (2-2)	Nishiguchi (2-1)		31,440	13-16-1
31	May 8	@Hawks	4 - 3	Settsu (1-2)	Graman (0-2)		29,611	13-17-1
32	May 9	@Hawks	1 - 9	Hoashi (1-2)	Arakaki (0-2)		30,863	14-17-1
33	May 10	@Hawks	8 - 1	Sugiuchi (4-1)	Nogami (0-2)		30,337	14-18-1
34	May 12	@Buffaloes	5 - 6	Kishi (6-0)	Kondo (3-2)	Onodera (2)	10,502	15-18-1
35	May 13	@Buffaloes	3 - 8	Ishii (2-3)	Yamamoto (2-2)		10,454	16-18-1
36	May 14	@Buffaloes	1 - 3	Nishiguchi (3-1)	Kaneko (3-3)	Onodera (3)	10,229	17-18-1
37	May 15	@Marines	0 - 18	Wakui (4-1)	Watanabe (1-4)		17,567	18-18-1
38	May 16	@Marines	6 - 4	Ito (2-1)	Onuma (1-2)	Ogino (5)	20,074	18-19-1
39	May 17	@Marines	8 - 5	Ono (2-3)	Hirano (0-1)	Ogino (6)	14,363	18-20-1
40	May 19	Dragons	5 - 7	Asakura (4-2)	Onuma (1-3)	Iwase (9)	18,110	18-21-1
41	May 20	Dragons	2 - 1 (10)	Nogami (1-2)	Asao (3-5)		19,203	19-21-1
42	May 22	BayStars	5 - 15	Miura (5-2)	Wakui (4-2)		16,323	19-22-1
43	May 23	BayStars	10 - 6	Hoashi (2-2)	Glynn (2-5)		24,471	20-22-1
44	May 24	@Carp	7 - 5	Komatsu (1-0)	Nishiguchi (3-2)	Nagakawa (12)	28,309	20-23-1
45	May 25	@Carp	3 - 0	Otake (4-1)	Kishi (6-1)	Nagakawa (13)	24,558	20-24-1
46	May 27	@Tigers	4 - 1	Shimoyanagi (4-2)	Ishii (2-4)	Fujikawa (4)	46,160	20-25-1
47	May 28	@Tigers	4 - 6	Wakui (5-2)	Ando (3-4)	Onodera (4)	44,395	21-25-1
48	May 30	Giants	2 - 2 (12)	Game tied after 12 innings			33,778	21-25-2
49	May 31	Giants	3 - 2 (10)	Onodera (2-2)	Kroon (0-1)		33,173	22-25-2

June

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Attendance	Record
50	June 2	Swallows	7 - 3	Wasdin (1-2)	Ishikawa (6-3)	16,001	23-25-2
51	June 3	Swallows
52	June 5	@BayStars
53	June 6	@BayStars
54	June 7	@Dragons
55	June 8	@Dragons
56	June 10	Tigers
57	June 11	Tigers
58	June 13	Carp
59	June 14	Carp
60	June 16	@Giants
61	June 17	@Giants
62	June 20	@Swallows
63	June 21	@Swallows
64	June 26	Hawks
65	June 27	Hawks
66	June 28	Hawks
67	June 30	Marines

July

#	Date	Opponent
68	July 1	Marines
69	July 2	Marines
70	July 3	@Eagles
71	July 4	@Eagles
72	July 5	@Eagles
73	July 7	Fighters
74	July 8	Fighters
75	July 9	Fighters
76	July 10	Buffaloes
77	July 11	Buffaloes
78	July 12	Buffaloes
79	July 14	Eagles
80	July 15	Eagles
81	July 16	Eagles
82	July 18	@Fighters
83	July 19	@Fighters
84	July 20	Buffaloes
85	July 21	Buffaloes
86	July 22	Buffaloes
87	July 28	@Eagles
88	July 29	@Eagles
89	July 31	@Buffaloes

August

#	Date	Opponent
90	August 1	@Buffaloes
91	August 2	@Buffaloes
92	August 4	Fighters
93	August 5	Fighters
94	August 6	Fighters
95	August 7	Hawks
96	August 8	Hawks
97	August 9	Hawks
98	August 11	@Marines
99	August 12	@Marines
100	August 13	@Marines
101	August 14	@Fighters
102	August 15	@Fighters
103	August 16	@Fighters
104	August 18	@Hawks
105	August 19	@Hawks
106	August 20	@Hawks
107	August 21	Marines
108	August 22	Marines
109	August 23	Marines
110	August 25	Eagles
111	August 26	Eagles
112	August 27	Eagles
113	August 28	@Buffaloes
114	August 29	@Buffaloes
115	August 30	@Buffaloes

September

#	Date	Opponent
116	September 1	@Eagles
117	September 2	@Eagles
118	September 3	@Eagles
119	September 4	@Hawks
120	September 5	@Hawks
121	September 6	@Hawks
122	September 8	Fighters
123	September 9	Fighters
124	September 10	Fighters
125	September 11	Buffaloes
126	September 12	Buffaloes
127	September 13	Buffaloes
128	September 15	@Marines
129	September 16	@Marines
130	September 17	@Marines
131	September 18	Hawks
132	September 19	Hawks
133	September 20	Hawks
134	September 21	@Fighters
135	September 22	@Fighters
136	September 23	@Fighters
137	September 25	Eagles
138	September 26	Eagles
139	September 27	Eagles
140	September 29	Marines
141	September 30	Marines

October

#	Date	Opponent
142	October 1	Marines
143	October 3	@Eagles
144	October 5	@Fighters

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

Saitama Seibu Lions

Formerly the Nishitetsu Clippers, Nishitetsu Lions, Taiheiyo Club Lions, Crown Lighter Lions and Seibu Lions
Based in Tokorozawa, Saitama

The Franchise

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History
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Ballparks

Heiwadai Stadium
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Culture

Kimba the White Lion

Retired Numbers

Japan Series Championships (13)

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Pacific League Championships (21)

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Asia Series (1)

2008

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