2009 Chiba Lotte Marines season

The 2009 Chiba Lotte Marines season features the Marines quest to win their first Pacific League title since 2005.

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 Lions 2 - 5 Wakui (1-0) Shimizu (0-1) Graman (1) 30,041 0-1-0 2 April 4 Lions 10 - 5 Komiyama (1-0) Hoashi (0-1) 26,819 1-1-0 3 April 5 Lions 6 - 5 Sikorski (1-0) Graman (0-1) 24,313 2-1-0 4 April 7 @Fighters 9 - 1 Tadano (1-0) Karakawa (0-1) 17,568 2-2-0 5 April 8 @Fighters 8 - 7 Tateyama (1-0) Sikorski (1-1) Takeda (1) 18,853 2-3-0 6 April 10 @Buffaloes 10 - 8 Katsuki (1-0) Shimizu (0-2) 27,827 2-4-0 7 April 11 @Buffaloes 5 - 2 Kondo (2-0) Kobayashi (0-1) Kato (2) 30,444 2-5-0 8 April 12 @Buffaloes 4 - 1 Kishida (1-0) Ono (0-1) Kato (3) 31,597 2-6-0 9 April 14 Eagles 1 - 2 Tanaka (2-0) Watanabe (0-1) 9,247 2-7-0 10 April 15 Eagles 7 - 1 Karakawa (1-1) Asai (0-2) 16,235 3-7-0 11 April 16 Eagles 11 - 7 (10) Sikorski (2-1) Koyama (0-1) 13,984 4-7-0 12 April 17 Hawks 2 - 1 (11) Ogino (1-0) Settsu (0-1) 10,367 5-7-0 13 April 18 Hawks 4 - 7 Kume (1-0) Ito (0-1) Mahara (2) 23,225 5-8-0 14 April 19 Hawks 5 - 12 Sugiuchi (2-0) Kobayashi (0-2) 25,537 5-9-0 — April 21 @Eagles Postponed (rained out) 15 April 22 @Eagles 2 - 0 Tanaka (3-0) Watanabe (0-2) 12,909 5-10-0 16 April 23 @Eagles 2 - 5 Ono (1-1) Hasebe (0-2) Ogino (1) 11,444 6-10-0 17 April 24 @Lions 3 - 1 Wakui (3-1) Karakawa (1-2) 12,618 6-11-0 18 April 25 @Lions 2 - 3 Naruse (1-0) Hoashi (0-2) Ogino (2) 23,147 7-11-0 19 April 26 @Lions 5 - 11 Omine (1-0) Wasdin (0-2) 23,647 8-11-0 20 April 28 Buffaloes 3 - 4 Kato (2-0) Sikorski (2-2) 13,198 8-12-0 21 April 29 Buffaloes 3 - 5 Kaneko (2-2) Watanabe (0-3) Kato (5) 24,756 8-13-0 22 April 30 Buffaloes 5 - 2 Ito (1-1) Kikuchihara (0-1) 12,212 9-13-0
May # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 23 May 1 @Hawks 6 - 2 Wada (2-2) Ono (1-2) 26,830 9-14-0 24 May 2 @Hawks 4 - 9 Karakawa (2-2) Arakaki (0-1) 30,239 10-14-0 25 May 3 @Hawks 7 - 2 Sugiuchi (3-1) Naruse (1-1) 34,040 10-15-0 26 May 4 Fighters 7 - 10 Tadano (2-2) Omine (1-1) Takeda (6) 30,058 10-16-0 27 May 5 Fighters 0 - 2 (5) Yagi (2-0) Kobayashi (0-3) 22,726 10-17-0 28 May 6 Fighters 7 - 3 Watanabe (1-3) Sweeney (0-3) 23,139 11-17-0 29 May 8 Eagles 4 - 3 Shimizu (1-2) Nagai (3-1) Ogino (3) 13,263 12-17-0 30 May 9 Eagles 2 - 6 Iwakuma (4-1) Ono (1-3) 24,668 12-18-0 31 May 10 Eagles 6 - 0 Karakawa (3-2) Rasner (2-2) 24,023 13-18-0 32 May 12 @Hawks 1 - 2 Naruse (2-1) Houlton (2-3) Ogino (4) 25,231 14-18-0 33 May 13 @Hawks 0 - 7 Omine (2-1) Otonari (1-3) 16,242 15-18-0 34 May 14 @Hawks 5 - 4 Falkenborg (1-0) Ogino (1-1) 29,671 15-19-0 35 May 15 Lions 0 - 18 Wakui (4-1) Watanabe (1-4) 17,567 15-20-0 36 May 16 Lions 6 - 4 Ito (2-1) Onuma (1-2) Ogino (5) 20,074 16-20-0 37 May 17 Lions 8 - 5 Ono (2-3) Hirano (0-1) Ogino (6) 14,363 17-20-0 38 May 19 BayStars 2 - 1 Karakawa (4-2) Ishii (0-5) 16,387 18-20-0 39 May 20 BayStars 1 - 4 Walrond (3-3) Naruse (2-2) Yamaguchi (2-2) 17,019 18-21-0 40 May 22 Dragons 1 - 4 Yoshimi (4-2) Omine (2-2) Iwase (10) 14,660 18-22-0 41 May 23 Dragons 2 - 1 Sikorski (3-2) Hirai (0-1) 28,117 19-22-0 — May 24 @Tigers No game (called after 4 innings) 42 May 25 @Tigers 4 - 3 Kubo (1-2) Shimizu (1-3) Fujikawa (3) 43,474 19-23-0 43 May 26 @Tigers 2 - 3 Sikorski (4-2) Fujikawa (1-3) Ogino (7) 26,680 20-23-0 44 May 27 @Carp 8 - 3 Maeda (3-5) Karakawa (4-3) 22,513 20-24-0 45 May 28 @Carp 4 - 3 Lewis (3-2) Kobayashi (0-4) Nagakawa (14) 12,048 20-25-0 46 May 30 Swallows 6 - 3 Naruse (3-2) Tanaka (0-1) 15,431 21-25-0 47 May 31 Swallows 1 - 7 Kawashima (4-3) Omine (2-3) 27,310 21-26-0
June # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 48 June 2 Giants 0 - 0 (12) Game tied after 12 innings 25,249 21-26-1 49 June 3 Giants 50 June 5 @Dragons 51 June 6 @Dragons 52 June 7 @BayStars 53 June 8 @BayStars 54 June 10 Carp 55 June 11 Carp 56 June 13 Tigers 57 June 14 Tigers 58 June 17 @Swallows 59 June 18 @Swallows 60 June 20 @Giants 61 June 21 @Giants 62 June 26 Fighters 63 June 27 Fighters 64 June 28 Fighters 65 June 30 @Lions

Player stats

Batting

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI	SB

Pitching

Player	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	ERA	SO

References