# 2009 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season

The 2009 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season features the Eagles quest to win their first Pacific League title.

## 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 |

### Game log

2009 game log: 77–66–1 (Home: 39–32–1; Away: 38–34–0) :
April: 4–4–0 (Home: 2–0–0; Away: 2–4–0)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveStadiumAttendanceRecordStreak
1April 3@Fighters1 - 3Iwakuma (1-0)Darvish (0-1)Arime (1)42,3281-0-0
2April 4@Fighters5 - 6Gwyn (1-0)Fujii (0-1)Kawagishi (1)36,3162-0-0
3April 5@Fighters6 - 9 (11)Kawagishi (1-0)Sakamoto (0-1)34,2523-0-0
4April 7Hawks6 - 0Tanaka (1-0)Loe (0-1)17,2814-0-0
5April 8Hawks0 - 7Houlton (1-0)Asai (0-1)13,3734-1-0
6April 9Hawks2 - 1Nagai (1-0)Otonari (0-1)Koyama (1)12,4185-1-0
7April 10Lions0 - 6Wakui (2-0)Iwakuma (1-1)15,9905-2-0
8April 11Lions2 - 5Onodera (1-0)Hasebe (0-1)Graman (2)17,8355-3-0
9April 12Lions4 - 1Rasner (1-0)Wasdin (0-1)17,4776-3-0
10April 14@Marines1 - 2Tanaka (2-0)Watanabe (0-1)9,2477-3-0
11April 15@Marines7 - 1Karakawa (1-1)Asai (0-2)16,2357-4-0
12April 16@Marines11 - 7 (10)Sikorski (2-1)Koyama (0-1)13,9847-5-0
13April 18@Buffaloes0 - 7Iwakuma (2-1)Kondo (2-1)20,5988-5-0
14April 19@Buffaloes15 - 0Kishida (2-0)Rasner (1-1)21,5618-6-0
—April 21MarinesPostponed (rained out)
15April 22Marines2 - 0Tanaka (3-0)Watanabe (0-2)12,9099-6-0
16April 23Marines2 - 5Ono (1-1)Hasebe (0-2)Ogino (1)11,4449-7-0
17April 24@Hawks2 - 3Nagai (2-0)Wada (1-2)Gwyn (1)27,56810-7-0
18April 25@Hawks5 - 4 (11)Mahara (1-0)Asai (0-3)31,02110-8-0
19April 26@Hawks0 - 4Rasner (2-1)Sugiuchi (2-1)Koyama (2)31,78711-8-0
20April 28Fighters2 - 4Yagi (1-0)Kawai (0-1)Takeda (5)13,32611-9-0
21April 29Fighters2 - 1Tanaka (4-0)Takeda (1-1)20,38112-9-0
22April 30Fighters4 - 2Hasebe (1-2)Sweeney (0-2)Arime (2)11,23913-9-0 :
May: 4–4–0 (Home: 2–0–0; Away: 2–4–0)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveStadiumAttendanceRecordStreak
23May 1Buffaloes12 - 2Nagai (3-0)Nakayama (0-2)12,26214-9-0
24May 2Buffaloes7 - 3Iwakuma (3-1)Komatsu (0-3)20,24615-9-0
25May 3Buffaloes8 - 4Koyama (1-1)Kishida (3-1)20,61916-9-0
26May 4@Lions8 - 3Kishi (5-0)Kawai (0-2)33,91116-10-0
27May 5@Lions3 - 7Isaka (1-0)Ishii (1-3)33,90817-10-0
28May 6@Lions3 - 6Hasebe (2-2)Nishiguchi (2-1)31,44018-10-0
29May 8@Marines4 - 3Shimizu (1-2)Nagai (3-1)Ogino (3)13,26318-11-0
30May 9@Marines2 - 6Iwakuma (4-1)Ono (1-3)24,66819-11-0
31May 10@Marines6 - 0Karakawa (3-2)Rasner (2-2)24,02319-12-0
32May 12Fighters1 - 8Yagi (3-0)Isaka (1-1)10,23119-13-0
33May 13Fighters7 - 3Tanaka (5-0)Sakamoto (0-2)13,98320-13-0
34May 14Fighters0 - 7Sweeney (1-3)Hasebe (2-3)10,67720-14-0
35May 15Hawks2 - 4Falkenborg (2-0)Koyama (1-2)Mahara (5)11,33821-14-0
36May 16Hawks1 - 2Iwakuma (5-1)Kamiuchi (2-1)17,76821-15-0
—May 17HawksPostponed (rained out)
37May 19Swallows3 - 7Ishikawa (6-1)Rasner (2-3)12,69121-16-0
38May 20Swallows2 - 0Tanaka (6-0)Sato (2-3)19,29522-16-0
39May 22Giants2 - 12Gonzalez (4-0)Nagai (3-2)20,17022-17-0
40May 23Giants1 - 7Utsumi (1-3)Iwakuma (5-2)20,59922-18-0
41May 24@BayStars2 - 5Hasebe (3-3)Kobayashi (1-4)Aoyama (1)18,04123-18-0
42May 25@BayStars6 - 5Kudoh (1-1)Aoyama (0-1)18,69623-19-0
43May 27@Dragons2 - 3Tanaka (7-0)Takahashi (1-1)Aoyama (2)32,20824-19-0
44May 28@Dragons2 - 1 (10)Nagamine (1-0)Aoyama (0-2)28,26224-20-0
—May 30CarpPostponed (rained out)
45May 31Carp4 - 5Otake (5-1)Iwakuma (5-3)Nagakawa (15)18,01524-21-0 :
June: 4–4–0 (Home: 2–0–0; Away: 2–4–0)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveStadiumAttendanceRecordStreak
46June 1Carp0 - 2Saito (3-3)Hasebe (3-4)Nagakawa (16)10,40224-22-0
47June 2Tigers
48June 3Tigers
49June 5@Swallows
50June 6@Swallows
51June 7@Giants
52June 8@Giants
53June 10Dragons
54June 11Dragons
55June 13BayStars
56June 14BayStars
57June 17@Carp
58June 18@Carp
59June 20@Tigers
60June 21@Tigers
61June 26@Buffaloes
62June 27@Buffaloes
63June 28@Buffaloes
64June 30@Fighters :
July: 4–4–0 (Home: 2–0–0; Away: 2–4–0)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveStadiumAttendanceRecordStreak
65July 1@Fighters
66July 2@Fighters
67July 3Lions
68July 4Lions
69July 5Lions
70July 7Marines
71July 8Marines
72July 9Marines
73July 10@Hawks
74July 11@Hawks
75July 12@Hawks
76July 14@Lions
77July 15@Lions
78July 16@Lions
79July 17Buffaloes
80July 18Buffaloes
81July 19Buffaloes
82July 20@Hawks
83July 21@Hawks
84July 22@Hawks
85July 28Lions
86July 29Lions
87July 31@Marines :
August: 4–4–0 (Home: 2–0–0; Away: 2–4–0)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveStadiumAttendanceRecordStreak
88August 1@Marines
89August 2@Marines
90August 4@Buffaloes
91August 5@Buffaloes
92August 6@Buffaloes
93August 7Fighters
94August 8Fighters
95August 9Fighters
96August 11Hawks
97August 12Hawks
98August 13Hawks
99August 14Marines
100August 15Marines
101August 16Marines
102August 18@Fighters
103August 19@Fighters
104August 20@Fighters
105August 21Buffaloes
106August 22Buffaloes
107August 23Buffaloes
108August 25@Lions
109August 26@Lions
110August 27@Lions
111August 28@Marines
112August 29@Marines
113August 30@Marines :
September: 4–4–0 (Home: 2–0–0; Away: 2–4–0)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveStadiumAttendanceRecordStreak
114September 1Lions
115September 2Lions
116September 3Lions
117September 4Fighters
118September 5Fighters
119September 6Fighters
120September 8@Buffaloes
121September 9@Buffaloes
122September 10@Buffaloes
123September 11@Hawks
124September 12@Hawks
125September 13@Hawks
126September 15@Fighters
127September 16@Fighters
128September 17@Fighters
129September 18Marines
130September 19Marines
131September 20Marines
132September 21Buffaloes
133September 22Buffaloes
134September 23Buffaloes
135September 25@Lions
136September 26@Lions
137September 27@Lions
138September 29Hawks
139September 30Hawks :
October: 4–4–0 (Home: 2–0–0; Away: 2–4–0)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveStadiumAttendanceRecordStreak
140October 1Hawks
141October 3Lions
142October 5@Buffaloes :
Win  |     Loss  |     Tie  |     Postponement  |      = Interleague play Bold = Eagles team member :

## Player stats
### Batting

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### Pitching

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