2009 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season

2009 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season
Manager	Masataka Nashida
Owner(s)	Nippon Ham
Arena	Sapporo Dome
Results
Record	82–60–2 (.577)
Place	1st (PL)
Playoff finish	Lost Japan Series
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters seasons
← 2008 2010 →

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

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

Record vs. opponents

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

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

2009 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

Roster

Pitchers

11 Yu Darvish

27 Shintaro Ejiri

18 Shugo Fujii

19 Masanori Hayashi

60 Takeshi Ito

20 Keisaku Itokazu

59 Takayuki Kanamori

47 Kazumasa Kikuchi

17 Ken Miyamoto

25 Naoki Miyanishi

15 Ryo Sakakibara

30 Yataro Sakamoto

13 Hideki Sunaga

42 Brian Sweeney

16 Kazuhito Tadano

21 Hisashi Takeda

38 Masaru Takeda

48 Keisuke Tanimoto

22 Yoshinori Tateyama

46 Yusuke Uemura

29 Tomoya Yagi

44 Kazunori Yamamoto

34 Mitsuo Yoshikawa

Catchers

32 Satoshi Nakajima

28 Shota Ono

64 Shinya Tsuruoka

Infielders

39 Jason Botts

4 Yuji Iiyama

45 Takahiro Imanami

5 Naoto Inada

14 Luis Jiménez

8 Makoto Kaneko

31 Eiichi Koyano

6 Sho Nakata

23 Tomohiro Nioka

2 Shinji Takahashi

9 Tomoyuki Oda

58 Takayuki Takaguchi

3 Kensuke Tanaka

24 Yang Dai-Kang

Outfielders

41 Atsunori Inaba

26 Yoshio Itoi

52 Toshimasa Konta

1 Hichori Morimoto

51 Kazuya Murata

55 Yoshihiro Sato

10 Terrmel Sledge

7 Tomochika Tsuboi

Manager

88 Masataka Nashida

Postseason

Climax Series

Main article: 2009 Pacific League Climax Series

Stage 2

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

Main article: 2009 Japan Series

Game 1


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


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


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


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


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


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

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

Batting

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	SB
Botts, JasonJason Botts	11	21	4	5	3	0	1	6	.238	0
Darvish, YuYu Darvish	23	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Fujii, ShugoShugo Fujii	22	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	.333	0
Iiyama, YujiYuji Iiyama	76	36	14	12	0	0	0	1	.333	2
Imanami, TakahiroTakahiro Imanami	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.250	0
Inaba, AtsunoriAtsunori Inaba	135	500	78	150	37	4	17	85	.300	5
Inada, NaotoNaoto Inada	65	65	4	18	3	0	0	7	.277	1
Itoi, YoshioYoshio Itoi	131	425	74	130	40	3	15	58	.306	24
Itokazu, KeisakuKeisaku Itokazu	13	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	.200	0
Jiménez, LuisLuis Jiménez	39	121	13	28	5	0	5	14	.231	0
Kaneko, MakotoMakoto Kaneko	136	454	58	138	31^*	5	14	66	.304	6
Kikuchi, KazumasaKazumasa Kikuchi	58	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Konta, ToshimasaToshimasa Konta	56	65	11	15	2	1	0	4	.231	2
Koyano, EiichiEiichi Koyano	138	530	65	157	33	4	11	82	.296	7
Morimoto, HichoriHichori Morimoto	107	316	50	78	14	4	1	29	.247	9
Murata, KazuyaKazuya Murata	44	55	15	16	1	2	0	5	.291	8
Nakajima, SatoshiSatoshi Nakajima	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	.333	0
Nakata, ShoSho Nakata	22	36	3	10	2	0	0	1	.278	0
Nioka, TomohiroTomohiro Nioka	69	170	25	43	5	0	4	25	.253	0
Oda, TomoyukiTomoyuki Oda	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	0
Ono, ShotaShota Ono	77	154	19	32	9	0	3	15	.208	0
Sato, YoshihiroYoshihiro Sato	10	15	3	3	0	0	2	2	.200	1
Sledge, TerrmelTerrmel Sledge	117	418	53	111	27	1	27	88	.266	1
Sweeney, BrianBrian Sweeney	21	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Takaguchi, TakayukiTakayuki Takaguchi	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Takahashi, ShinjiShinji Takahashi	134	508	66	157	22	1	8	75	.309	7
Takeda, MasaruMasaru Takeda	24	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Tanaka, KensukeKensuke Tanaka	144	575	93	163	34	4	3	49	.283	31
Tsuboi, TomochikaTomochika Tsuboi	84	146	13	39	8	0	0	15	.267	0
Tsuruoka, ShinyaShinya Tsuruoka	122	263	25	58	14	1	1	29	.221	1
Yagi, TomoyaTomoya Yagi	20	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Yang Dai-KangYang 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.^[1]

Pitching

Player	W	L	ERA	G	Win%	SV	IP	R	ER	BB	K
Darvish, YuYu Darvish	15	5	01.73 !1.73	23	.750 !.750	0	182.0 !182	36	35	45	167
Ejiri, ShintaroShintaro Ejiri	2	1	03.20 !3.20	45	.667	0	045.0 !45	16	16	25	39
Fujii, ShugoShugo Fujii	7	5	03.53 !3.53	22	.583	0	114.7 !114 ²⁄₃	45	45	48	63
Hayashi, MasanoriMasanori Hayashi	3	2	03.33 !3.33	46	.600	0	046.0 !46	17	17	25	42
Ito, TakeshiTakeshi Ito	0	0	00.00 !0.00	1	.000	0	000.3 ! ¹⁄₃	0	0	0	1
Itokazu, KeisakuKeisaku Itokazu	4	5	04.56 !4.56	13	.444	0	071.0 !71	40	36	27	43
Kanamori, TakayukiTakayuki Kanamori	0	0	00.84 !0.84	18	.000	0	021.3 !21 ¹⁄₃	2	2	8	9
Kikuchi, KazumasaKazumasa Kikuchi	5	2	03.67 !3.67	58	.714	0	061.3 !61 ¹⁄₃	25	25	11	62
Miyamoto, KenKen Miyamoto	0	0	03.07 !3.07	12	.000	0	014.7 !14 ²⁄₃	6	5	7	3
Miyanishi, NaokiNaoki Miyanishi	7	2	02.89 !2.89	58	.778	0	046.7 !46 ²⁄₃	15	15	15	55
Sakakibara, RyoRyo Sakakibara	0	1	06.08 !6.08	10	.000	0	026.7 !26 ²⁄₃	19	18	8	23
Sakamoto, YataroYataro Sakamoto	0	2	05.97 !5.97	19	.000	0	028.7 !28 ²⁄₃	19	19	13	11
Sunaga, HidekiHideki Sunaga	0	1	08.50 !8.50	9	.000	0	018.0 !18	17	17	8	7
Sweeney, BrianBrian Sweeney	5	8	05.32 !5.32	21	.385	0	118.3 !118 ¹⁄₃	73	70	52	58
Tadano, KazuhitoKazuhito Tadano	5	5	05.76 !5.76	13	.500	0	070.3 !70 ¹⁄₃	45	45	27	46
Takeda, HisashiHisashi Takeda	3	0	01.20 !1.20	55	1.000	34	060.0 !60	10	8	14	38
Takeda, MasaruMasaru Takeda	10	9	03.55 !3.55	24	.526	0	144.3 !144 ¹⁄₃	58	57	20	99
Tanimoto, KeisukeKeisuke Tanimoto	2	0	05.53 !5.53	24	1.000	0	027.7 !27 ²⁄₃	18	17	20	20
Tateyama, YoshinoriYoshinori Tateyama	5	7	03.78 !3.78	46	.417	0	047.7 !47 ²⁄₃	24	20	15	43
Uemura, YusukeYusuke Uemura	0	0	15.00 !15.00	1	.000	0	003.0 !3	5	5	4	2
Yagi, TomoyaTomoya Yagi	9	3	02.88 !2.88	20	.750	0	122.0 !122	41	39	40	76
Yamamoto, KazunoriKazunori Yamamoto	0	0	07.71 !7.71	3	.000	0	002.3 !2 ¹⁄₃	2	2	1	3
Yoshikawa, MitsuoMitsuo Yoshikawa	0	2	06.61 !6.61	3	.000	0	016.3 !16 ¹⁄₃	17	12	10	18

Indicates PL leader in the category

References

↑ Coskrey, Jason (April 21, 2009). "Kaneko's streak gives Fighters double vision". The Japan Times. Retrieved March 9, 2010.

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