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

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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