2009 Saitama Seibu Lions season

The 2009 Saitama Seibu Lions season features the Lions quest to win back-to-back Japan Series titles.

Regular season

Standings

2009 Pacific League regular season standings

Pos	Team v t e	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 @Marines 2 - 5 Wakui (1-0) Shimizu (0-1) Graman (1) 30,041 1-0-0 2 April 4 @Marines 10 - 5 Komiyama (1-0) Hoashi (0-1) 26,819 1-1-0 3 April 5 @Marines 6 - 5 Sikorski (1-0) Graman (0-1) 24,313 1-2-0 4 April 7 Buffaloes 8 - 3 Kishi (1-0) Kaneko (0-1) 24,011 2-2-0 5 April 8 Buffaloes 2 - 10 Yamamoto (1-0) Ishii (0-1) 10,001 2-3-0 6 April 9 Buffaloes 13 - 6 Nishiguchi (1-0) Hirano (0-1) 9,813 3-3-0 7 April 10 @Eagles 0 - 6 Wakui (2-0) Iwakuma (1-1) 15,990 4-3-0 8 April 11 @Eagles 2 - 5 Onodera (1-0) Hasebe (0-1) Graman (2) 17,835 5-3-0 9 April 12 @Eagles 4 - 1 Rasner (1-0) Wasdin (0-1) 17,477 5-4-0 10 April 14 @Hawks 3 - 5 Kishi (2-0) Loe (0-2) Graman (3) 14,451 6-4-0 11 April 15 @Hawks 2 - 2 (12) Game tied after 12 innings 26,498 6-4-1 12 April 16 @Hawks 5 - 12 Nishiguchi (2-0) Otonari (0-2) Hirano (1) 25,538 7-4-1 13 April 17 Fighters 2 - 4 Darvish (2-1) Wakui (2-1) Takeda (2) 15,181 7-5-1 14 April 18 Fighters 4 - 6 Tanimoto (1-0) Shotsu (0-1) Takeda (3) 28,525 7-6-1 15 April 19 Fighters 6 - 8 Miyanishi (1-0) Onodera (1-1) Takeda (4) 22,315 7-7-1 16 April 21 @Buffaloes 1 - 7 Kishi (3-0) Kaneko (1-2) 10,326 8-7-1 17 April 22 @Buffaloes 6 - 3 Yamamoto (2-0) Ishii (0-2) 10,805 8-8-1 18 April 23 @Buffaloes 2 - 1 Kato (1-0) Onuma (0-1) 10,586 8-9-1 19 April 24 Marines 3 - 1 Wakui (3-1) Karakawa (1-2) 12,618 9-9-1 20 April 25 Marines 2 - 3 Naruse (1-0) Hoashi (0-2) Ogino (2) 23,147 9-10-1 21 April 26 Marines 5 - 11 Omine (1-0) Wasdin (0-2) 23,647 9-11-1 22 April 28 Hawks 5 - 4 Kishi (4-0) Loe (0-3) Onodera (1) 16,151 10-11-1 23 April 29 Hawks 7 - 2 Ishii (1-2) Houlton (2-1) 28,855 11-11-1 24 April 30 Hawks 5 - 8 Mizuta (1-0) Doi (0-1) Mahara (4) 15,720 11-12-1
May # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 25 May 1 @Fighters 1 - 2 (12) Onuma (1-1) Tateyama (1-2) Nogami (1) 28,007 12-12-1 26 May 2 @Fighters 7 - 6 (11) Takeda (1-0) Nogami (0-1) 34,711 12-13-1 27 May 3 @Fighters 6 - 5 (12) Tanimoto (2-0) Onodera (1-2) 40,754 12-14-1 28 May 4 Eagles 8 - 3 Kishi (5-0) Kawai (0-2) 33,911 13-14-1 29 May 5 Eagles 3 - 7 Isaka (1-0) Ishii (1-3) 33,908 13-15-1 30 May 6 Eagles 3 - 6 Hasebe (2-2) Nishiguchi (2-1) 31,440 13-16-1 31 May 8 @Hawks 4 - 3 Settsu (1-2) Graman (0-2) 29,611 13-17-1 32 May 9 @Hawks 1 - 9 Hoashi (1-2) Arakaki (0-2) 30,863 14-17-1 33 May 10 @Hawks 8 - 1 Sugiuchi (4-1) Nogami (0-2) 30,337 14-18-1 34 May 12 @Buffaloes 5 - 6 Kishi (6-0) Kondo (3-2) Onodera (2) 10,502 15-18-1 35 May 13 @Buffaloes 3 - 8 Ishii (2-3) Yamamoto (2-2) 10,454 16-18-1 36 May 14 @Buffaloes 1 - 3 Nishiguchi (3-1) Kaneko (3-3) Onodera (3) 10,229 17-18-1 37 May 15 @Marines 0 - 18 Wakui (4-1) Watanabe (1-4) 17,567 18-18-1 38 May 16 @Marines 6 - 4 Ito (2-1) Onuma (1-2) Ogino (5) 20,074 18-19-1 39 May 17 @Marines 8 - 5 Ono (2-3) Hirano (0-1) Ogino (6) 14,363 18-20-1 40 May 19 Dragons 5 - 7 Asakura (4-2) Onuma (1-3) Iwase (9) 18,110 18-21-1 41 May 20 Dragons 2 - 1 (10) Nogami (1-2) Asao (3-5) 19,203 19-21-1 42 May 22 BayStars 5 - 15 Miura (5-2) Wakui (4-2) 16,323 19-22-1 43 May 23 BayStars 10 - 6 Hoashi (2-2) Glynn (2-5) 24,471 20-22-1 44 May 24 @Carp 7 - 5 Komatsu (1-0) Nishiguchi (3-2) Nagakawa (12) 28,309 20-23-1 45 May 25 @Carp 3 - 0 Otake (4-1) Kishi (6-1) Nagakawa (13) 24,558 20-24-1 46 May 27 @Tigers 4 - 1 Shimoyanagi (4-2) Ishii (2-4) Fujikawa (4) 46,160 20-25-1 47 May 28 @Tigers 4 - 6 Wakui (5-2) Ando (3-4) Onodera (4) 44,395 21-25-1 48 May 30 Giants 2 - 2 (12) Game tied after 12 innings 33,778 21-25-2 49 May 31 Giants 3 - 2 (10) Onodera (2-2) Kroon (0-1) 33,173 22-25-2
June # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 50 June 2 Swallows 7 - 3 Wasdin (1-2) Ishikawa (6-3) 16,001 23-25-2 51 June 3 Swallows 52 June 5 @BayStars 53 June 6 @BayStars 54 June 7 @Dragons 55 June 8 @Dragons 56 June 10 Tigers 57 June 11 Tigers 58 June 13 Carp 59 June 14 Carp 60 June 16 @Giants 61 June 17 @Giants 62 June 20 @Swallows 63 June 21 @Swallows 64 June 26 Hawks 65 June 27 Hawks 66 June 28 Hawks 67 June 30 Marines
July # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 68 July 1 Marines 69 July 2 Marines 70 July 3 @Eagles 71 July 4 @Eagles 72 July 5 @Eagles 73 July 7 Fighters 74 July 8 Fighters 75 July 9 Fighters 76 July 10 Buffaloes 77 July 11 Buffaloes 78 July 12 Buffaloes 79 July 14 Eagles 80 July 15 Eagles 81 July 16 Eagles 82 July 18 @Fighters 83 July 19 @Fighters 84 July 20 Buffaloes 85 July 21 Buffaloes 86 July 22 Buffaloes 87 July 28 @Eagles 88 July 29 @Eagles 89 July 31 @Buffaloes
August # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 90 August 1 @Buffaloes 91 August 2 @Buffaloes 92 August 4 Fighters 93 August 5 Fighters 94 August 6 Fighters 95 August 7 Hawks 96 August 8 Hawks 97 August 9 Hawks 98 August 11 @Marines 99 August 12 @Marines 100 August 13 @Marines 101 August 14 @Fighters 102 August 15 @Fighters 103 August 16 @Fighters 104 August 18 @Hawks 105 August 19 @Hawks 106 August 20 @Hawks 107 August 21 Marines 108 August 22 Marines 109 August 23 Marines 110 August 25 Eagles 111 August 26 Eagles 112 August 27 Eagles 113 August 28 @Buffaloes 114 August 29 @Buffaloes 115 August 30 @Buffaloes
September # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 116 September 1 @Eagles 117 September 2 @Eagles 118 September 3 @Eagles 119 September 4 @Hawks 120 September 5 @Hawks 121 September 6 @Hawks 122 September 8 Fighters 123 September 9 Fighters 124 September 10 Fighters 125 September 11 Buffaloes 126 September 12 Buffaloes 127 September 13 Buffaloes 128 September 15 @Marines 129 September 16 @Marines 130 September 17 @Marines 131 September 18 Hawks 132 September 19 Hawks 133 September 20 Hawks 134 September 21 @Fighters 135 September 22 @Fighters 136 September 23 @Fighters 137 September 25 Eagles 138 September 26 Eagles 139 September 27 Eagles 140 September 29 Marines 141 September 30 Marines
October # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 142 October 1 Marines 143 October 3 @Eagles 144 October 5 @Fighters

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.