# 2009 Pacific League Climax Series

The 2009 Pacific League Climax Series (PLCS) consisted of two consecutive series, Stage 1 being a best-of-three series and Stage 2 being a best-of-six with the top seed being awarded a one-win advantage. The winner of the series advanced to the 2009 Japan Series, where they competed against the 2009 Central League Climax Series winner. The top three regular-season finishers played in the two series. The PLCS began on with the first game of Stage 1 on October 16 and ended with the final game of Stage 2 on October 24.

## First stage
### Summary

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles won the series, 2–0.
| Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
| 1 | October 16 | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 4, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 11 | Kleenex Stadium | 3:00 | 21,303 |
| 2 | October 17 | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 1, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 4 | Kleenex Stadium | 2:47 | 21,388 |

### Game 1

Friday, October 16, 2009 at Nippon Paper Kleenex Stadium Miyagi in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| SoftBank | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| Rakuten | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | X | 11 | 12 | 1 |
| WP: Hisashi Iwakuma (1–0) LP: Toshiya Sugiuchi (0–1) Home runs: SOF: None RAK: Yosuke Takasu (1), Fernando Seguignol (1), Toshiya Nakashima (1), Takeshi Yamasaki (1) |||||||||||||

### Game 2

Saturday, October 17, 2009 at Nippon Paper Kleenex Stadium Miyagi in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| SoftBank | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| Rakuten | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 | 8 | 1 |
| WP: Masahiro Tanaka (1–0) LP: Dennis Houlton (0–1) Home runs: SOF: None RAK: Takeshi Yamasaki (2) |||||||||||||

## Second stage
### Summary

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters won the series, 4–1*.
| Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
| 1 | October 21 | Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 8, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 9 | Sapporo Dome | 3:28 | 38,235 |
| 2 | October 22 | Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 1, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 3 | Sapporo Dome | 3:19 | 32,713 |
| 3 | October 23 | Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 3, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 2 | Sapporo Dome | 2:48 | 42,328 |
| 4 | October 24 | Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 4, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 9 | Sapporo Dome | 3:43 | 42,328 |
    * The Pacific League regular season champion is given a one-game advantage in the Second Stage.

### Game 1

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaido :
| 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

Thursday, October 22, 2009 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaido :
| 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

Friday, October 23, 2009 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaido :
| 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

Saturday, October 24, 2009 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaido :
| 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) |||||||||||||