# 2009 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season

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

## Regular season
### Standings

2009 Pacific League regular season standings :
| Pos | Teamvte | 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 |

### 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
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
1April 3Eagles3–1Iwakuma (1–0)Darvish (0–1)Arime (1)42,3280–1–0
2April 4Eagles6–5Gwyn (1–0)Fujii (0–1)Kawagishi (1)36,3160–2–0
3April 5Eagles9–6 (11)Kawagishi (1–0)Sakamoto (0–1)34,2520–3–0
4April 7Marines1–9Tadano (1–0)Karakawa (0–1)17,5681–3–0
5April 8Marines7–8Tateyama (1–0)Sikorski (1–1)H. Takeda (1)18,8532–3–0
6April 10@ Hawks9–1Darvish (1–1)Wada (1–1)26,9403–3–0
7April 11@ Hawks9–0Fujii (1–1)Takahashi (0–1)28,3064–3–0
8April 12@ Hawks4–5Sugiuchi (1–0)Sweeney (0–1)Mahara (1)28,2964–4–0
9April 14Buffaloes8–7Kaneko (1–1)Tadano (1–1)Kato (4)17,5484–5–0
10April 15Buffaloes5–11Kikuchi (1–0)Motoyanagi (0–1)17,5795–5–0
11April 16Buffaloes1–7M. Takeda (1–0)Nakayama (0–1)20,7026–5–0
12April 17@ Lions4–2Darvish (2–1)Wakui (2–1)H. Takeda (2)15,1817–5–0
13April 18@ Lions6–4Tanimoto (1–0)Shotsu (0–1)H. Takeda (3)28,5258–5–0
14April 19@ Lions8–6Miyanishi (1–0)Onodera (1–1)H. Takeda (4)22,3159–5–0
15April 21Hawks10–5Kamiuchi (2–0)Tadano (1–2)17,4869–6–0
16April 22Hawks3–2Houlton (2–0)Tateyama (1–1)Mahara (3)19,1389–7–0
17April 23Hawks6–7Miyanishi (2–0)Settsu (0–2)18,36410–7–0
18April 24@ Buffaloes11–0Darvish (3–1)Komatsu (0–2)18,72411–7–0
—April 25@ BuffaloesGame postponed due to rain
19April 26@ Buffaloes3–11Kishida (3–0)Sakakibara (0–1)13,22311–8–0
20April 28@ Eagles4–2Yagi (1–0)Kawai (0–1)H. Takeda (5)13,32612–8–0
21April 29@ Eagles1–2Tanaka (4–0)M. Takeda (1–1)20,38112–9–0
22April 30@ Eagles2–4Hasebe (1–2)Sweeney (0–2)Arime (2)11,23912–10–0 :
May
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
23May 1Lions2–1 (12)Onuma (1–1)Tateyama (1–2)Nogami (1)28,00712–11–0
24May 2Lions6–7 (11)H. Takeda (1–0)Nogami (0–1)34,71113–11–0
25May 3Lions5–6 (12)Tanimoto (2–0)Onodera (1–2)40,75414–11–0
26May 4@ Marines10–7Tadano (2–2)Omine (1–1)H. Takeda (6)30,05815–11–0
27May 5@ Marines2–0 (5)Yagi (2–0)Kobayashi (0–3)22,72616–11–0
28May 6@ Marines3–7Watanabe (1–3)Sweeney (0–3)23,13916–12–0
29May 8Buffaloes1–10Darvish (4–1)Nakayama (0–3)26,63817–12–0
30May 9Buffaloes2–3Fujii (2–1)Komatsu (0–4)H. Takeda (7)26,30818–12–0
31May 10Buffaloes2–7M. Takeda (2–1)Yoshino (0–1)28,15619–12–0
32May 12@ Eagles8–1Yagi (3–0)Isaka (1–1)10,23120–12–0
33May 13@ Eagles3–7Tanaka (5–0)Sakamoto (0–2)13,98320–13–0
34May 14@ Eagles7–0Sweeney (1–3)Hasebe (2–3)10,67721–13–0
35May 15@ Buffaloes4–2Darvish (5–1)Nakayama (0–4)H. Takeda (8)11,40522–13–0
36May 16@ Buffaloes7–3Fujii (3–1)Komatsu (0–5)H. Takeda (9)21,96523–13–0
37May 17@ Buffaloes0–6Mitsuhara (1–0)M. Takeda (2–2)19,46723–14–0
38May 19Giants6–16Yagi (4–0)Takahashi (2–1)33,05024–14–0
39May 20Giants5–6Hayashi (1–0)Greisinger (5–3)H. Takeda (10)33,60225–14–0
40May 22Swallows3–2Tateyama (5–0)Fujii (3–2)Lim (14)20,93225–15–0
41May 23Swallows0–3Darvish (6–1)Barrett (0–1)31,28826–15–0
42May 24@ Dragons0–1Kawai (3–0)M. Takeda (2–3)Iwase (11)31,71126–16–0
43May 25@ Dragons4–10Asakura (5–2)Itokazu (0–1)29,05126–17–0
44May 27@ BayStars4–5Kizuka (1–0)Kikuchi (1–1)Yamaguchi (3)13,06226–18–0
—May 28@ BayStarsGame postponed due to rain
45May 29@ BayStars7–1Fujii (4–2)Miura (5–3)7,34927–18–0
46May 30Tigers2–8Darvish (7–1)Fukuhara (2–4)42,32828–18–0
47May 31Tigers4–4 (12)Game tied after 12 innings42,05128–18–1 :
June
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
48June 2Carp2–1Maeda (4–5)Itokazu (0–2)Nagakawa (17)20,25228–19–1
49June 3Carp2–7Tateyama (2–2)Yokoyama (1–3)22,25729–19–1
50June 5@ Giants2–5Gonzalez (6–0)Fujii (4–3)Kroon (9)44,24229–20–1
51June 6@ Giants2–3Utsumi (2–3)Darvish (7–2)Kroon (10)44,88729–21–1
52June 7@ Swallows3–0M. Takeda (3–3)Kawashima (4–4)H. Takeda (11)20,03230–21–1
53June 8@ Swallows3–4Lim (1–0)Tateyama (2–3)12,51530–22–1
54June 10BayStars3–5Miyanishi (3–0)Walrond (3–5)H. Takeda (12)10,97731–22–1
55June 11BayStars3–9Sweeney (2–3)Oyamada (0–1)22,58232–22–1
56June 13Dragons1–9Darvish (8–2)Yamamoto (0–2)35,69933–22–1
57June 14Dragons11–10Kawai (5–0)Itokazu (0–3)Iwase (15)33,08633–23–1
58June 16@ Tigers3–4Kubo (2–4)M. Takeda (3–4)Fujikawa (6)21,31033–24–1
59June 17@ Tigers10–5Yagi (5–0)Shimoyanagi (5–4)23,54334–24–1
60June 20@ Carp5–1Darvish (9–2)Saito (4–5)30,99335–24–1
61June 21@ Carp5–7Maeda (5–5)M. Takeda (3–5)Nagakawa (20)30,48635–25–1
62June 26@ Marines5–0Darvish (10–2)Kobayashi (1–5)28,36736–25–1
63June 27@ Marines5–4Yagi (6–0)Karakawa (4–4)H. Takeda (13)23,51337–25–1
64June 28@ Marines2–3 (7)Ono (4–4)Sweeney (2–4)18,18437–26–1
65June 30Eagles1–3Itokazu (1–3)Hasebe (4–6)H. Takeda (14)23,24838–26–1 :
July
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
66July 1Eagles5–10M. Takeda (4–5)Fujiwara (0–2)23,37439–26–1
67July 2Eagles3–6Hayashi (2–0)Arime (0–1)H. Takeda (15)25,44240–26–1
68July 4Hawks7–3Sugiuchi (9–1)Yagi (6–1)18,08640–27–1
69July 5Hawks3–2Houlton (6–3)Sweeney (2–5)Mahara (14)18,66040–28–1
70July 7@ Lions4–6Kishi (9–1)Itokazu (1–4)12,52540–29–1
71July 8@ Lions3–4Iwasaki (2–0)Darvish (10–3)Onodera (10)12,52540–30–1
72July 9@ Lions2–8Wakui (10–3)M. Takeda (4–6)12,62540–31–1
73July 10Marines0–4Tadano (3–2)Kobayashi (1–7)25,69041–31–1
74July 11Marines5–6Ejiri (1–0)Kawasaki (1–1)H. Takeda (16)37,11642–31–1
75July 12Marines6–7 (12)Miyanishi (4–0)Ito (2–2)34,76443–31–1
76July 14@ Hawks1–2Otonari (4–4)Fujii (4–4)Mahara (16)31,26243–32–1
77July 15@ Hawks9–1Darvish (11–3)Fujioka (3–4)33,03144–32–1
78July 16@ Hawks3–2Kikuchi (2–1)Sugiuchi (9–2)H. Takeda (17)33,54945–32–1
—July 18LionsGame postponed due to rain
—July 19LionsGame postponed due to rain
79July 20Marines3–4Fujii (5–4)Omine (2–5)H. Takeda (18)22,00446–32–1
80July 21Marines3–7Tadano (4–2)Matsumoto (0–1)18,74247–32–1
81July 22Marines1–2Darvish (12–3)Naruse (4–5)23,54748–32–1
All-Star Break: CL and PL split series, 1–1
82July 28@ Marines5–1Yagi (7–1)Kobayashi (2–8)24,55849–32–1
83July 29@ Marines6–5Ejiri (2–0)Sikorski (5–5)H. Takeda (19)17,87850–32–1
84July 30@ Marines7–6Miyanishi (5–0)Ogino (2–2)H. Takeda (20)15,13751–32–1
85July 31Hawks1–5Darvish (13–3)Germano (4–2)29,52552–32–1 :
August
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
86August 1Hawks2–1Houlton (8–4)Tateyama (2–4)Mahara (21)33,54352–33–1
87August 2Hawks1–7M. Takeda (5–6)Sugiuchi (9–3)35,63953–33–1
88August 4@ Lions5–1Yagi (8–1)Wakui (12–4)20,47354–33–1
89August 5@ Lions2–5Ishii (5–7)Kikuchi (2–2)Onodera (16)18,51054–34–1
90August 6@ Lions7–4Tateyama (3–4)Iwasaki (2–4)H. Takeda (21)19,36055–34–1
91August 7@ Eagles1–3Tanaka (9–4)Darvish (13–4)Gwyn (4)20,22655–35–1
92August 8@ Eagles8–6Fujii (6–4)Nagai (7–5)H. Takeda (22)20,54256–35–1
93August 9@ Eagles4–1M. Takeda (6–6)Hasebe (4–6)H. Takeda (23)16,07757–35–1
94August 11Buffaloes3–4 (12)Hayashi (3–0)Okubo (2–1)20,01358–35–1
95August 12Buffaloes8–2Kondo (6–7)Sunaga (2–1)21,88458–36–1
96August 13Buffaloes4–8Sweeney (3–5)Hirano (2–8)33,82359–36–1
97August 14Lions2–3Darvish (14–4)Onuma (2–4)H. Takeda (24)34,09560–36–1
98August 15Lions0–2Kikuchi (3–2)Kishi (11–2)H. Takeda (25)33,56761–36–1
99August 16Lions6–7 (10)Miyanishi (6–0)Onodera (2–5)30,39962–36–1
100August 18Eagles6–3Iwakuma (10–5)Yagi (8–2)15,10562–37–1
—August 19EaglesGame postponed due to rain
101August 20Eagles4–1Nagai (8–6)Tadano (4–3)Fukumori (3)24,01062–38–1
102August 21@ Hawks2–6Otonari (6–7)Darvish (14–5)34,37462–39–1
103August 22@ Hawks3–4Houlton (9–6)Ejiri (2–1)Mahara (26)32,51162–40–1
104August 23@ Hawks1–3Sugiuchi (12–3)M. Takeda (6–7)33,64862–41–1
105August 25@ Buffaloes10–11 (10)Shimizu (1–2)Tateyama (3–5)12,38162–42–1
106August 26@ Buffaloes6–2Itokazu (2–4)Kondo (7–8)20,36063–42–1
107August 27@ Buffaloes3–1Tadano (5–3)Hirano (2–10)H. Takeda (26)9,41264–42–1
108August 28Hawks1–3Miyanishi (7–0)Otonari (6–8)H. Takeda (27)23,40265–42–1
109August 29Hawks3–5Kikuchi (4–2)Mise (0–1)H. Takeda (28)29,64866–42–1
110August 30Hawks3–2Sugiuchi (13–3)Miyanishi (7–1)Mahara (27)28,48366–43–1 :
September
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
111September 1@ Marines2–9Omine (4–5)Itokazu (2–5)10,13466–44–1
112September 2@ Marines3–1Sweeney (4–5)Kobayashi (3–12)H. Takeda (29)16,54267–44–1
113September 3@ Marines1–7Naruse (8–5)Tadano (5–4)10,16767–45–1
114September 4@ Eagles9–2Kikuchi (5–2)Kawagishi (2–3)13,93068–45–1
115September 5@ Eagles10–3M. Takeda (7–7)Aoyama (1–4)19,78169–45–1
116September 6@ Eagles3–4Fukumori (6–0)Tateyama (3–6)19,53369–46–1
117September 8@ Lions0–5Wakui (14–5)Sweeney (4–6)15,34669–47–1
118September 9@ Lions4–7Ishii (8–8)Tadano (5–5)Bayliss (1)14,01869–48–1
119September 10@ Lions4–5Fujita (2–0)Tateyama (3–7)Matsunaga (1)15,16069–49–1
120September 11Marines3–2Shimizu (5–6)Fujii (6–5)Sikorski (11)29,44969–50–1
121September 12Marines4–2Karakawa (5–6)Yagi (8–3)Sikorski (12)38,30769–51–1
122September 13Marines1–3Darvish (15–5)Ono (7–7)H. Takeda (30)42,06970–51–1
123September 15Eagles2–5M. Takeda (8–7)Iwakuma (12–6)H. Takeda (31)20,35171–51–1
124September 16Eagles7–3Nagai (11–6)Sweeney (4–7)20,44671–52–1
125September 17Eagles7–3Tateyama (4–7)Satake (0–1)H. Takeda (32)21,63672–52–1
126September 18@ Buffaloes7–6 (11)H. Takeda (2–0)Kaneko (11–8)13,68473–52–1
127September 19@ Buffaloes4–1Itokazu (3–5)Hirano (3–11)18,91474–52–1
128September 20@ Buffaloes2–7Vogelsong (1–4)Miyanishi (7–2)24,20874–53–1
129September 21Lions5–3Wakui (15–5)M. Takeda (8–8)38,16574–54–1
130September 22Lions5–2Hsu (1–1)Sweeney (4–8)34,21474–55–1
131September 23Lions6–1Nishiguchi (4–3)Yoshikawa (0–1)26,95574–56–1
132September 25@ Hawks0–0 (12)Game tied after 12 innings31,27874–56–2
133September 26@ Hawks5–4 (12)H. Takeda (3–0)Fujioka (5–8)32,31275–56–2
134September 27@ Hawks2–4Otonari (8–9)M. Takeda (8–9)Mahara (29)33,30075–57–2
135September 29Buffaloes3–12Sweeney (5–8)Ihara (0–3)19,57676–57–2
136September 30Buffaloes2–3Itokazu (4–5)Kondo (8–12)H. Takeda (33)17,35277–57–2 :
October
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
137October 1Buffaloes6–5Kishida (9–4)Hayashi (3–1)Kaneko (3)19,78477–58–2
138October 3Marines1–11Yagi (9–3)Omine (5–6)34,22878–58–2
139October 4Hawks2–4M. Takeda (9–9)Otonari (8–10)H. Takeda (34)41,69879–58–2
140October 5Lions10–5Onodera (3–5)Hayashi (3–2)Fujita (3)41,99979–59–2
141October 6Lions4–5 (12)Tateyama (5–7)Nishiguchi (4–4)35,44280–59–2
142October 7Lions3–8Fujii (7–5)Kimura (0–4)17,62381–59–2
143October 8@ Buffaloes1–11Kishida (10–4)Yoshikawa (0–2)15,29781–60–2
144October 10Eagles1–7M. Takeda (10–9)Aoyama (3–5)36,25782–60–2 :

### Roster
## Postseason
### 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
#### 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 |
| Jason Botts | 11 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .238 | 0 |
| Yu Darvish | 23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Shugo Fujii | 22 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | 0 |
| Yuji Iiyama | 76 | 36 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 | 2 |
| Takahiro Imanami | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | 0 |
| Atsunori Inaba | 135 | 500 | 78 | 150 | 37 | 4 | 17 | 85 | .300 | 5 |
| Naoto Inada | 65 | 65 | 4 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .277 | 1 |
| Yoshio Itoi | 131 | 425 | 74 | 130 | 40 | 3 | 15 | 58 | .306 | 24 |
| Keisaku Itokazu | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | 0 |
| Luis Jiménez | 39 | 121 | 13 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 14 | .231 | 0 |
| Makoto Kaneko | 136 | 454 | 58 | 138 | 31 | 5 | 14 | 66 | .304 | 6 |
| Kazumasa Kikuchi | 58 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Toshimasa Konta | 56 | 65 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | .231 | 2 |
| Eiichi Koyano | 138 | 530 | 65 | 157 | 33 | 4 | 11 | 82 | .296 | 7 |
| Hichori Morimoto | 107 | 316 | 50 | 78 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 29 | .247 | 9 |
| Kazuya Murata | 44 | 55 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | .291 | 8 |
| Satoshi Nakajima | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | 0 |
| Sho Nakata | 22 | 36 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .278 | 0 |
| Tomohiro Nioka | 69 | 170 | 25 | 43 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 25 | .253 | 0 |
| Tomoyuki Oda | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 |
| Shota Ono | 77 | 154 | 19 | 32 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 15 | .208 | 0 |
| Yoshihiro Sato | 10 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .200 | 1 |
| Terrmel Sledge | 117 | 418 | 53 | 111 | 27 | 1 | 27 | 88 | .266 | 1 |
| Brian Sweeney | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Takayuki Takaguchi | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Shinji Takahashi | 134 | 508 | 66 | 157 | 22 | 1 | 8 | 75 | .309 | 7 |
| Masaru Takeda | 24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Kensuke Tanaka | 144 | 575 | 93 | 163 | 34 | 4 | 3 | 49 | .283 | 31 |
| Tomochika Tsuboi | 84 | 146 | 13 | 39 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 15 | .267 | 0 |
| Shinya Tsuruoka | 122 | 263 | 25 | 58 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 29 | .221 | 1 |
| Tomoya Yagi | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Yang 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.

### Pitching

| Player | W | L | ERA | G | Win% | SV | IP | R | ER | BB | K |
| Yu Darvish | 15 | 5 | 1.73 | 23 | .750 | 0 | 182 | 36 | 35 | 45 | 167 |
| Shintaro Ejiri | 2 | 1 | 3.20 | 45 | .667 | 0 | 45 | 16 | 16 | 25 | 39 |
| Shugo Fujii | 7 | 5 | 3.53 | 22 | .583 | 0 | 114+2⁄3 | 45 | 45 | 48 | 63 |
| Masanori Hayashi | 3 | 2 | 3.33 | 46 | .600 | 0 | 46 | 17 | 17 | 25 | 42 |
| Takeshi Ito | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | .000 | 0 | +1⁄3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Keisaku Itokazu | 4 | 5 | 4.56 | 13 | .444 | 0 | 71 | 40 | 36 | 27 | 43 |
| Takayuki Kanamori | 0 | 0 | 0.84 | 18 | .000 | 0 | 21+1⁄3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 |
| Kazumasa Kikuchi | 5 | 2 | 3.67 | 58 | .714 | 0 | 61+1⁄3 | 25 | 25 | 11 | 62 |
| Ken Miyamoto | 0 | 0 | 3.07 | 12 | .000 | 0 | 14+2⁄3 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| Naoki Miyanishi | 7 | 2 | 2.89 | 58 | .778 | 0 | 46+2⁄3 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 55 |
| Ryo Sakakibara | 0 | 1 | 6.08 | 10 | .000 | 0 | 26+2⁄3 | 19 | 18 | 8 | 23 |
| Yataro Sakamoto | 0 | 2 | 5.97 | 19 | .000 | 0 | 28+2⁄3 | 19 | 19 | 13 | 11 |
| Hideki Sunaga | 0 | 1 | 8.50 | 9 | .000 | 0 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 8 | 7 |
| Brian Sweeney | 5 | 8 | 5.32 | 21 | .385 | 0 | 118+1⁄3 | 73 | 70 | 52 | 58 |
| Kazuhito Tadano | 5 | 5 | 5.76 | 13 | .500 | 0 | 70+1⁄3 | 45 | 45 | 27 | 46 |
| Hisashi Takeda | 3 | 0 | 1.20 | 55 | 1.000 | 34 | 60 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 38 |
| Masaru Takeda | 10 | 9 | 3.55 | 24 | .526 | 0 | 144+1⁄3 | 58 | 57 | 20 | 99 |
| Keisuke Tanimoto | 2 | 0 | 5.53 | 24 | 1.000 | 0 | 27+2⁄3 | 18 | 17 | 20 | 20 |
| Yoshinori Tateyama | 5 | 7 | 3.78 | 46 | .417 | 0 | 47+2⁄3 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 43 |
| Yusuke Uemura | 0 | 0 | 15.00 | 1 | .000 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| Tomoya Yagi | 9 | 3 | 2.88 | 20 | .750 | 0 | 122 | 41 | 39 | 40 | 76 |
| Kazunori Yamamoto | 0 | 0 | 7.71 | 3 | .000 | 0 | 2+1⁄3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Mitsuo Yoshikawa | 0 | 2 | 6.61 | 3 | .000 | 0 | 16+1⁄3 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 18 |
    Indicates PL leader in the category