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

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

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

Batting

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI SB

Pitching

Player G GS IP W L SV ERA SO

References

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