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2009 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season

Summary

The 2009 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season was the 64th season for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters franchise.

2009 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
Pacific League champions
LeaguePacific League
BallparkSapporo Dome
Record82–60–2 (.577)
League place1st
Parent companyNippon Ham
PresidentJunichi Fujii
ManagerMasataka Nashida
CaptainAtsunori Inaba
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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]

Record vs. opponents edit

Pacific League
Chiba Lotte Marines 18–6–1
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 11–12–1
Orix Buffaloes 16–8–0
Saitama Seibu Lions 12–12–0
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 13–11–0
Central League
Chunichi Dragons 1–3–0
Hanshin Tigers 2–1–1
Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2–2–0
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2–2–0
Yokohama BayStars 3–1–0
Yomiuri Giants 2–2–0
Interleague total 12–11–1
Total 82–60–2

Game log edit

Legend
  Fighters win
  Fighters loss
  Fighters tie
  Postponement
Bold Fighters team member
2009 Game Log
April
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record
1 April 3 Eagles 3–1 Iwakuma (1–0) Darvish (0–1) Arime (1) 42,328 0–1–0
2 April 4 Eagles 6–5 Gwyn (1–0) Fujii (0–1) Kawagishi (1) 36,316 0–2–0
3 April 5 Eagles 9–6 (11) Kawagishi (1–0) Sakamoto (0–1) 34,252 0–3–0
4 April 7 Marines 1–9 Tadano (1–0) Karakawa (0–1) 17,568 1–3–0
5 April 8 Marines 7–8 Tateyama (1–0) Sikorski (1–1) H. Takeda (1) 18,853 2–3–0
6 April 10 @ Hawks 9–1 Darvish (1–1) Wada (1–1) 26,940 3–3–0
7 April 11 @ Hawks 9–0 Fujii (1–1) Takahashi (0–1) 28,306 4–3–0
8 April 12 @ Hawks 4–5 Sugiuchi (1–0) Sweeney (0–1) Mahara (1) 28,296 4–4–0
9 April 14 Buffaloes 8–7 Kaneko (1–1) Tadano (1–1) Kato (4) 17,548 4–5–0
10 April 15 Buffaloes 5–11 Kikuchi (1–0) Motoyanagi (0–1) 17,579 5–5–0
11 April 16 Buffaloes 1–7 M. Takeda (1–0) Nakayama (0–1) 20,702 6–5–0
12 April 17 @ Lions 4–2 Darvish (2–1) Wakui (2–1) H. Takeda (2) 15,181 7–5–0
13 April 18 @ Lions 6–4 Tanimoto (1–0) Shotsu (0–1) H. Takeda (3) 28,525 8–5–0
14 April 19 @ Lions 8–6 Miyanishi (1–0) Onodera (1–1) H. Takeda (4) 22,315 9–5–0
15 April 21 Hawks 10–5 Kamiuchi (2–0) Tadano (1–2) 17,486 9–6–0
16 April 22 Hawks 3–2 Houlton (2–0) Tateyama (1–1) Mahara (3) 19,138 9–7–0
17 April 23 Hawks 6–7 Miyanishi (2–0) Settsu (0–2) 18,364 10–7–0
18 April 24 @ Buffaloes 11–0 Darvish (3–1) Komatsu (0–2) 18,724 11–7–0
— April 25 @ Buffaloes Game postponed due to rain
19 April 26 @ Buffaloes 3–11 Kishida (3–0) Sakakibara (0–1) 13,223 11–8–0
20 April 28 @ Eagles 4–2 Yagi (1–0) Kawai (0–1) H. Takeda (5) 13,326 12–8–0
21 April 29 @ Eagles 1–2 Tanaka (4–0) M. Takeda (1–1) 20,381 12–9–0
22 April 30 @ Eagles 2–4 Hasebe (1–2) Sweeney (0–2) Arime (2) 11,239 12–10–0
May
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record
23 May 1 Lions 2–1 (12) Onuma (1–1) Tateyama (1–2) Nogami (1) 28,007 12–11–0
24 May 2 Lions 6–7 (11) H. Takeda (1–0) Nogami (0–1) 34,711 13–11–0
25 May 3 Lions 5–6 (12) Tanimoto (2–0) Onodera (1–2) 40,754 14–11–0
26 May 4 @ Marines 10–7 Tadano (2–2) Omine (1–1) H. Takeda (6) 30,058 15–11–0
27 May 5 @ Marines 2–0 (5) Yagi (2–0) Kobayashi (0–3) 22,726 16–11–0
28 May 6 @ Marines 3–7 Watanabe (1–3) Sweeney (0–3) 23,139 16–12–0
29 May 8 Buffaloes 1–10 Darvish (4–1) Nakayama (0–3) 26,638 17–12–0
30 May 9 Buffaloes 2–3 Fujii (2–1) Komatsu (0–4) H. Takeda (7) 26,308 18–12–0
31 May 10 Buffaloes 2–7 M. Takeda (2–1) Yoshino (0–1) 28,156 19–12–0
32 May 12 @ Eagles 8–1 Yagi (3–0) Isaka (1–1) 10,231 20–12–0
33 May 13 @ Eagles 3–7 Tanaka (5–0) Sakamoto (0–2) 13,983 20–13–0
34 May 14 @ Eagles 7–0 Sweeney (1–3) Hasebe (2–3) 10,677 21–13–0
35 May 15 @ Buffaloes 4–2 Darvish (5–1) Nakayama (0–4) H. Takeda (8) 11,405 22–13–0
36 May 16 @ Buffaloes 7–3 Fujii (3–1) Komatsu (0–5) H. Takeda (9) 21,965 23–13–0
37 May 17 @ Buffaloes 0–6 Mitsuhara (1–0) M. Takeda (2–2) 19,467 23–14–0
38 May 19 Giants 6–16 Yagi (4–0) Takahashi (2–1) 33,050 24–14–0
39 May 20 Giants 5–6 Hayashi (1–0) Greisinger (5–3) H. Takeda (10) 33,602 25–14–0
40 May 22 Swallows 3–2 Tateyama (5–0) Fujii (3–2) Lim (14) 20,932 25–15–0
41 May 23 Swallows 0–3 Darvish (6–1) Barrett (0–1) 31,288 26–15–0
42 May 24 @ Dragons 0–1 Kawai (3–0) M. Takeda (2–3) Iwase (11) 31,711 26–16–0
43 May 25 @ Dragons 4–10 Asakura (5–2) Itokazu (0–1) 29,051 26–17–0
44 May 27 @ BayStars 4–5 Kizuka (1–0) Kikuchi (1–1) Yamaguchi (3) 13,062 26–18–0
— May 28 @ BayStars Game postponed due to rain
45 May 29 @ BayStars 7–1 Fujii (4–2) Miura (5–3) 7,349 27–18–0
46 May 30 Tigers 2–8 Darvish (7–1) Fukuhara (2–4) 42,328 28–18–0
47 May 31 Tigers 4–4 (12) Game tied after 12 innings 42,051 28–18–1
June
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record
48 June 2 Carp 2–1 Maeda (4–5) Itokazu (0–2) Nagakawa (17) 20,252 28–19–1
49 June 3 Carp 2–7 Tateyama (2–2) Yokoyama (1–3) 22,257 29–19–1
50 June 5 @ Giants 2–5 Gonzalez (6–0) Fujii (4–3) Kroon (9) 44,242 29–20–1
51 June 6 @ Giants 2–3 Utsumi (2–3) Darvish (7–2) Kroon (10) 44,887 29–21–1
52 June 7 @ Swallows 3–0 M. Takeda (3–3) Kawashima (4–4) H. Takeda (11) 20,032 30–21–1
53 June 8 @ Swallows 3–4 Lim (1–0) Tateyama (2–3) 12,515 30–22–1
54 June 10 BayStars 3–5 Miyanishi (3–0) Walrond (3–5) H. Takeda (12) 10,977 31–22–1
55 June 11 BayStars 3–9 Sweeney (2–3) Oyamada (0–1) 22,582 32–22–1
56 June 13 Dragons 1–9 Darvish (8–2) Yamamoto (0–2) 35,699 33–22–1
57 June 14 Dragons 11–10 Kawai (5–0) Itokazu (0–3) Iwase (15) 33,086 33–23–1
58 June 16 @ Tigers 3–4 Kubo (2–4) M. Takeda (3–4) Fujikawa (6) 21,310 33–24–1
59 June 17 @ Tigers 10–5 Yagi (5–0) Shimoyanagi (5–4) 23,543 34–24–1
60 June 20 @ Carp 5–1 Darvish (9–2) Saito (4–5) 30,993 35–24–1
61 June 21 @ Carp 5–7 Maeda (5–5) M. Takeda (3–5) Nagakawa (20) 30,486 35–25–1
62 June 26 @ Marines 5–0 Darvish (10–2) Kobayashi (1–5) 28,367 36–25–1
63 June 27 @ Marines 5–4 Yagi (6–0) Karakawa (4–4) H. Takeda (13) 23,513 37–25–1
64 June 28 @ Marines 2–3 (7) Ono (4–4) Sweeney (2–4) 18,184 37–26–1
65 June 30 Eagles 1–3 Itokazu (1–3) Hasebe (4–6) H. Takeda (14) 23,248 38–26–1
July
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record
66 July 1 Eagles 5–10 M. Takeda (4–5) Fujiwara (0–2) 23,374 39–26–1
67 July 2 Eagles 3–6 Hayashi (2–0) Arime (0–1) H. Takeda (15) 25,442 40–26–1
68 July 4 Hawks 7–3 Sugiuchi (9–1) Yagi (6–1) 18,086 40–27–1
69 July 5 Hawks 3–2 Houlton (6–3) Sweeney (2–5) Mahara (14) 18,660 40–28–1
70 July 7 @ Lions 4–6 Kishi (9–1) Itokazu (1–4) 12,525 40–29–1
71 July 8 @ Lions 3–4 Iwasaki (2–0) Darvish (10–3) Onodera (10) 12,525 40–30–1
72 July 9 @ Lions 2–8 Wakui (10–3) M. Takeda (4–6) 12,625 40–31–1
73 July 10 Marines 0–4 Tadano (3–2) Kobayashi (1–7) 25,690 41–31–1
74 July 11 Marines 5–6 Ejiri (1–0) Kawasaki (1–1) H. Takeda (16) 37,116 42–31–1
75 July 12 Marines 6–7 (12) Miyanishi (4–0) Ito (2–2) 34,764 43–31–1
76 July 14 @ Hawks 1–2 Otonari (4–4) Fujii (4–4) Mahara (16) 31,262 43–32–1
77 July 15 @ Hawks 9–1 Darvish (11–3) Fujioka (3–4) 33,031 44–32–1
78 July 16 @ Hawks 3–2 Kikuchi (2–1) Sugiuchi (9–2) H. Takeda (17) 33,549 45–32–1
— July 18 Lions Game postponed due to rain
— July 19 Lions Game postponed due to rain
79 July 20 Marines 3–4 Fujii (5–4) Omine (2–5) H. Takeda (18) 22,004 46–32–1
80 July 21 Marines 3–7 Tadano (4–2) Matsumoto (0–1) 18,742 47–32–1
81 July 22 Marines 1–2 Darvish (12–3) Naruse (4–5) 23,547 48–32–1
All-Star Break: CL and PL split series, 1–1
82 July 28 @ Marines 5–1 Yagi (7–1) Kobayashi (2–8) 24,558 49–32–1
83 July 29 @ Marines 6–5 Ejiri (2–0) Sikorski (5–5) H. Takeda (19) 17,878 50–32–1
84 July 30 @ Marines 7–6 Miyanishi (5–0) Ogino (2–2) H. Takeda (20) 15,137 51–32–1
85 July 31 Hawks 1–5 Darvish (13–3) Germano (4–2) 29,525 52–32–1
August
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record
86 August 1 Hawks 2–1 Houlton (8–4) Tateyama (2–4) Mahara (21) 33,543 52–33–1
87 August 2 Hawks 1–7 M. Takeda (5–6) Sugiuchi (9–3) 35,639 53–33–1
88 August 4 @ Lions 5–1 Yagi (8–1) Wakui (12–4) 20,473 54–33–1
89 August 5 @ Lions 2–5 Ishii (5–7) Kikuchi (2–2) Onodera (16) 18,510 54–34–1
90 August 6 @ Lions 7–4 Tateyama (3–4) Iwasaki (2–4) H. Takeda (21) 19,360 55–34–1
91 August 7 @ Eagles 1–3 Tanaka (9–4) Darvish (13–4) Gwyn (4) 20,226 55–35–1
92 August 8 @ Eagles 8–6 Fujii (6–4) Nagai (7–5) H. Takeda (22) 20,542 56–35–1
93 August 9 @ Eagles 4–1 M. Takeda (6–6) Hasebe (4–6) H. Takeda (23) 16,077 57–35–1
94 August 11 Buffaloes 3–4 (12) Hayashi (3–0) Okubo (2–1) 20,013 58–35–1
95 August 12 Buffaloes 8–2 Kondo (6–7) Sunaga (2–1) 21,884 58–36–1
96 August 13 Buffaloes 4–8 Sweeney (3–5) Hirano (2–8) 33,823 59–36–1
97 August 14 Lions 2–3 Darvish (14–4) Onuma (2–4) H. Takeda (24) 34,095 60–36–1
98 August 15 Lions 0–2 Kikuchi (3–2) Kishi (11–2) H. Takeda (25) 33,567 61–36–1
99 August 16 Lions 6–7 (10) Miyanishi (6–0) Onodera (2–5) 30,399 62–36–1
100 August 18 Eagles 6–3 Iwakuma (10–5) Yagi (8–2) 15,105 62–37–1
— August 19 Eagles Game postponed due to rain
101 August 20 Eagles 4–1 Nagai (8–6) Tadano (4–3) Fukumori (3) 24,010 62–38–1
102 August 21 @ Hawks 2–6 Otonari (6–7) Darvish (14–5) 34,374 62–39–1
103 August 22 @ Hawks 3–4 Houlton (9–6) Ejiri (2–1) Mahara (26) 32,511 62–40–1
104 August 23 @ Hawks 1–3 Sugiuchi (12–3) M. Takeda (6–7) 33,648 62–41–1
105 August 25 @ Buffaloes 10–11 (10) Shimizu (1–2) Tateyama (3–5) 12,381 62–42–1
106 August 26 @ Buffaloes 6–2 Itokazu (2–4) Kondo (7–8) 20,360 63–42–1
107 August 27 @ Buffaloes 3–1 Tadano (5–3) Hirano (2–10) H. Takeda (26) 9,412 64–42–1
108 August 28 Hawks 1–3 Miyanishi (7–0) Otonari (6–8) H. Takeda (27) 23,402 65–42–1
109 August 29 Hawks 3–5 Kikuchi (4–2) Mise (0–1) H. Takeda (28) 29,648 66–42–1
110 August 30 Hawks 3–2 Sugiuchi (13–3) Miyanishi (7–1) Mahara (27) 28,483 66–43–1
September
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record
111 September 1 @ Marines 2–9 Omine (4–5) Itokazu (2–5) 10,134 66–44–1
112 September 2 @ Marines 3–1 Sweeney (4–5) Kobayashi (3–12) H. Takeda (29) 16,542 67–44–1
113 September 3 @ Marines 1–7 Naruse (8–5) Tadano (5–4) 10,167 67–45–1
114 September 4 @ Eagles 9–2 Kikuchi (5–2) Kawagishi (2–3) 13,930 68–45–1
115 September 5 @ Eagles 10–3 M. Takeda (7–7) Aoyama (1–4) 19,781 69–45–1
116 September 6 @ Eagles 3–4 Fukumori (6–0) Tateyama (3–6) 19,533 69–46–1
117 September 8 @ Lions 0–5 Wakui (14–5) Sweeney (4–6) 15,346 69–47–1
118 September 9 @ Lions 4–7 Ishii (8–8) Tadano (5–5) Bayliss (1) 14,018 69–48–1
119 September 10 @ Lions 4–5 Fujita (2–0) Tateyama (3–7) Matsunaga (1) 15,160 69–49–1
120 September 11 Marines 3–2 Shimizu (5–6) Fujii (6–5) Sikorski (11) 29,449 69–50–1
121 September 12 Marines 4–2 Karakawa (5–6) Yagi (8–3) Sikorski (12) 38,307 69–51–1
122 September 13 Marines 1–3 Darvish (15–5) Ono (7–7) H. Takeda (30) 42,069 70–51–1
123 September 15 Eagles 2–5 M. Takeda (8–7) Iwakuma (12–6) H. Takeda (31) 20,351 71–51–1
124 September 16 Eagles 7–3 Nagai (11–6) Sweeney (4–7) 20,446 71–52–1
125 September 17 Eagles 7–3 Tateyama (4–7) Satake (0–1) H. Takeda (32) 21,636 72–52–1
126 September 18 @ Buffaloes 7–6 (11) H. Takeda (2–0) Kaneko (11–8) 13,684 73–52–1
127 September 19 @ Buffaloes 4–1 Itokazu (3–5) Hirano (3–11) 18,914 74–52–1
128 September 20 @ Buffaloes 2–7 Vogelsong (1–4) Miyanishi (7–2) 24,208 74–53–1
129 September 21 Lions 5–3 Wakui (15–5) M. Takeda (8–8) 38,165 74–54–1
130 September 22 Lions 5–2 Hsu (1–1) Sweeney (4–8) 34,214 74–55–1
131 September 23 Lions 6–1 Nishiguchi (4–3) Yoshikawa (0–1) 26,955 74–56–1
132 September 25 @ Hawks 0–0 (12) Game tied after 12 innings 31,278 74–56–2
133 September 26 @ Hawks 5–4 (12) H. Takeda (3–0) Fujioka (5–8) 32,312 75–56–2
134 September 27 @ Hawks 2–4 Otonari (8–9) M. Takeda (8–9) Mahara (29) 33,300 75–57–2
135 September 29 Buffaloes 3–12 Sweeney (5–8) Ihara (0–3) 19,576 76–57–2
136 September 30 Buffaloes 2–3 Itokazu (4–5) Kondo (8–12) H. Takeda (33) 17,352 77–57–2
October
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record
137 October 1 Buffaloes 6–5 Kishida (9–4) Hayashi (3–1) Kaneko (3) 19,784 77–58–2
138 October 3 Marines 1–11 Yagi (9–3) Omine (5–6) 34,228 78–58–2
139 October 4 Hawks 2–4 M. Takeda (9–9) Otonari (8–10) H. Takeda (34) 41,698 79–58–2
140 October 5 Lions 10–5 Onodera (3–5) Hayashi (3–2) Fujita (3) 41,999 79–59–2
141 October 6 Lions 4–5 (12) Tateyama (5–7) Nishiguchi (4–4) 35,442 80–59–2
142 October 7 Lions 3–8 Fujii (7–5) Kimura (0–4) 17,623 81–59–2
143 October 8 @ Buffaloes 1–11 Kishida (10–4) Yoshikawa (0–2) 15,297 81–60–2
144 October 10 Eagles 1–7 M. Takeda (10–9) Aoyama (3–5) 36,257 82–60–2

Roster edit

2009 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders Manager

Postseason edit

Climax Series edit

Stage 2 edit

Game 1
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Rakuten 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 0 2 8 12 0
Nippon-Ham 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 9 13 0
WP: Masanori Hayashi (1–0)   LP: Kazuo Fukumori (0–1)
Home runs:
RAK: Teppei Tsuchiya (1)
NIP: Terrmel Sledge (1)
Game 2
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Rakuten 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 1
Nippon-Ham 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 X 3 9 0
WP: Keisaku Itokazu (1–0)   LP: Hisashi Iwakuma (0–1)   Sv: Hisashi Takeda (1)
Home runs:
RAK: Fernando Seguignol (1)
NIP: None
Game 3
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Rakuten 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 0
Nippon-Ham 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 6 0
WP: Masahiro Tanaka (1–0)   LP: Tomoya Yagi (0–1)
Home runs:
RAK: Naoto Watanabe (1)
NIP: Shinji Takahashi (1)
Game 4
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Rakuten 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 4 9 0
Nippon-Ham 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 3 X 9 14 0
WP: Shugo Fujii (1–0)   LP: Hiromichi Fujiwara (0–1)
Home runs:
RAK: None
NIP: Hichori Morimoto (1), Terrmel Sledge (2)

Japan Series edit

Game 1 edit

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Yomiuri 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 4 8 0
Nippon-Ham 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 12 0
WP: Dicky Gonzalez (1–0)   LP: Masaru Takeda (0–1)   Sv: Marc Kroon (1)
Home runs:
YOM: Yoshitomo Tani (1)
NIP: Terrmel Sledge (1)

Game 2 edit

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Yomiuri 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 0
Nippon-Ham 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 x 4 12 0
WP: Yu Darvish (1–0)   LP: Tetsuya Utsumi (0–1)   Sv: Hisashi Takeda (1)
Home runs:
YOM: Yoshiyuki Kamei (1)
NIP: Atsunori Inaba (1)

Game 3 edit

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Nippon-Ham 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 4 0
Yomiuri 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 2 X 7 8 3
WP: Wirfin Obispo (1–0)   LP: Keisaku Itokazu (0–1)   Sv: Marc Kroon (2)
Home runs:
NIP: Atsunori Inaba (2), Eiichi Koyano (1), Kensuke Tanaka (1)
YOM: Lee Seung-Yeop (1), Shinnosuke Abe (1), Michihiro Ogasawara (1)

Game 4 edit

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Nippon-Ham 0 0 4 0 1 0 2 1 0 8 11 1
Yomiuri 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 4 13 0
WP: Yagi (1–0)   LP: Takahashi (0–1)   Sv: Takeda (2)
Home runs:
NIP: Shinji Takahashi (1)
YOM: Ramírez (1)

Game 5 edit

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Nippon-Ham 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 1
Yomiuri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 7 2
WP: Yamaguchi, (1-0)   LP: H. Takeda, (0-1)
Home runs:
NIP: Takahashi (2)
YOM: Kamei (2), Abe (2)

Game 6 edit

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Yomiuri 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 6 0
Nippon-Ham 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1
WP: Tetsuya Utsumi (1–1)   LP: Masaru Takeda (0-2)   Sv: Marc Kroon (3)

Awards edit

Various Fighters players won awards for their regular season performances. Five players were selected for the Best Nine Award: Yu Darvish, Shinji Takahashi, Kensuke Tanaka, Atsunori Inaba and Yoshio Itoi. Shinya Tsuruoka and Eiichi Koyano joined Best Nine winners Takahashi, Tanaka, Inaba and Itoi to take seven of the nine available PL Golden Glove Awards. Darvish was voted the PL Most Valuable Player as well as the PL Most Valuable Pitcher.

Player statistics edit

Batting edit

Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG SB
Jason Botts 11 21 4 5 3 0 1 6 .238 0
Yu Darvish 23 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0
Shugo Fujii 22 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 .333 0
Yuji Iiyama 76 36 14 12 0 0 0 1 .333 2
Takahiro Imanami 5 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 .250 0
Atsunori Inaba 135 500 78 150 37 4 17 85 .300 5
Naoto Inada 65 65 4 18 3 0 0 7 .277 1
Yoshio Itoi 131 425 74 130 40 3 15 58 .306 24
Keisaku Itokazu 13 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 .200 0
Luis Jiménez 39 121 13 28 5 0 5 14 .231 0
Makoto Kaneko 136 454 58 138 31* 5 14 66 .304 6
Kazumasa Kikuchi 58 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0
Toshimasa Konta 56 65 11 15 2 1 0 4 .231 2
Eiichi Koyano 138 530 65 157 33 4 11 82 .296 7
Hichori Morimoto 107 316 50 78 14 4 1 29 .247 9
Kazuya Murata 44 55 15 16 1 2 0 5 .291 8
Satoshi Nakajima 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 .333 0
Sho Nakata 22 36 3 10 2 0 0 1 .278 0
Tomohiro Nioka 69 170 25 43 5 0 4 25 .253 0
Tomoyuki Oda 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1.000 0
Shota Ono 77 154 19 32 9 0 3 15 .208 0
Yoshihiro Sato 10 15 3 3 0 0 2 2 .200 1
Terrmel Sledge 117 418 53 111 27 1 27 88 .266 1
Brian Sweeney 21 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0
Takayuki Takaguchi 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0
Shinji Takahashi 134 508 66 157 22 1 8 75 .309 7
Masaru Takeda 24 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0
Kensuke Tanaka 144 575 93 163 34 4 3 49 .283 31
Tomochika Tsuboi 84 146 13 39 8 0 0 15 .267 0
Shinya Tsuruoka 122 263 25 58 14 1 1 29 .221 1
Tomoya Yagi 20 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0
Yang Dai-Kang 15 11 2 2 0 0 0 0 .182 0
  Indicates PL leader in the category
^* Makoto Kaneko set a NPB record on April 14, 2009, by hitting at least one double in seven consecutive games.[2]

Pitching edit

Player W L ERA G Win% SV IP R ER BB K
Yu Darvish 15 5 1.73 23 .750 0 182 36 35 45 167
Shintaro Ejiri 2 1 3.20 45 .667 0 45 16 16 25 39
Shugo Fujii 7 5 3.53 22 .583 0 114+2⁄3 45 45 48 63
Masanori Hayashi 3 2 3.33 46 .600 0 46 17 17 25 42
Takeshi Ito 0 0 0.00 1 .000 0 +1⁄3 0 0 0 1
Keisaku Itokazu 4 5 4.56 13 .444 0 71 40 36 27 43
Takayuki Kanamori 0 0 0.84 18 .000 0 21+1⁄3 2 2 8 9
Kazumasa Kikuchi 5 2 3.67 58 .714 0 61+1⁄3 25 25 11 62
Ken Miyamoto 0 0 3.07 12 .000 0 14+2⁄3 6 5 7 3
Naoki Miyanishi 7 2 2.89 58 .778 0 46+2⁄3 15 15 15 55
Ryo Sakakibara 0 1 6.08 10 .000 0 26+2⁄3 19 18 8 23
Yataro Sakamoto 0 2 5.97 19 .000 0 28+2⁄3 19 19 13 11
Hideki Sunaga 0 1 8.50 9 .000 0 18 17 17 8 7
Brian Sweeney 5 8 5.32 21 .385 0 118+1⁄3 73 70 52 58
Kazuhito Tadano 5 5 5.76 13 .500 0 70+1⁄3 45 45 27 46
Hisashi Takeda 3 0 1.20 55 1.000 34 60 10 8 14 38
Masaru Takeda 10 9 3.55 24 .526 0 144+1⁄3 58 57 20 99
Keisuke Tanimoto 2 0 5.53 24 1.000 0 27+2⁄3 18 17 20 20
Yoshinori Tateyama 5 7 3.78 46 .417 0 47+2⁄3 24 20 15 43
Yusuke Uemura 0 0 15.00 1 .000 0 3 5 5 4 2
Tomoya Yagi 9 3 2.88 20 .750 0 122 41 39 40 76
Kazunori Yamamoto 0 0 7.71 3 .000 0 2+1⁄3 2 2 1 3
Mitsuo Yoshikawa 0 2 6.61 3 .000 0 16+1⁄3 17 12 10 18
  Indicates PL leader in the category

References edit

  1. ^ "2009 Pacific League Standings". Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
  2. ^ Coskrey, Jason (April 21, 2009). "Kaneko's streak gives Fighters double vision". The Japan Times. Retrieved March 9, 2010.

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