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[edit]

Standings[edit]

2009 Pacific League regular season standings
Pos Team
 Pld W L T GB PCT Home Away
1 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 144 82 60 2 — .576 46–25–1 36–35–1
2 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 144 77 66 1 6.5 .538 39–32–1 38–34–0
3 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 144 74 65 5 3.5 .531 40–28–4 34–37–1
4 Saitama Seibu Lions 144 70 70 4 9 .500 38–32–2 32–38–2
5 Chiba Lotte Marines 144 62 77 5 15.5 .448 37–31–4 25–46–1
6 Orix Buffaloes 144 56 86 2 26 .396 32–40–0 24–46–2
Source: [1]

Game log[edit]

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 Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record
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[edit]

Batting[edit]

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI SB

Pitching[edit]

Player G GS IP W L SV ERA SO

References[edit]

  1. ^ "2009 Pacific League Standings". Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
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