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

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 @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