# 2009 Yomiuri Giants season

The 2009 Yomiuri Giants season was the 76th season for the Yomiuri Giants franchise.

## Regular season
### Standings

2009 Central League regular season standings :
| Teamvte | Pld | W | L | T | PCT | GB |
| Yomiuri Giants | 144 | 89 | 46 | 9 | .649 | — |
| Chunichi Dragons | 144 | 81 | 62 | 1 | .566 | 12 |
| Tokyo Yakult Swallows | 144 | 71 | 72 | 1 | .497 | 22 |
| Hanshin Tigers | 144 | 67 | 73 | 4 | .479 | 24.5 |
| Hiroshima Carp | 144 | 65 | 75 | 4 | .465 | 26.5 |
| Yokohama BayStars | 144 | 51 | 93 | 0 | .354 | 42.5 |

### Record vs. opponents

Central League :
| Chunichi Dragons | 16–8–0 |
| Hanshin Tigers | 11–11–2 |
| Hiroshima Toyo Carp | 14–7–3 |
| Tokyo Yakult Swallows | 18–5–1 |
| Yokohama BayStars | 18–6–0 |
| Pacific League ||
| Chiba Lotte Marines | 1–1–2 |
| Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | 1–3–0 |
| Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | 2–2–0 |
| Orix Buffaloes | 2–2–0 |
| Saitama Seibu Lions | 2–1–1 |
| Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | 4–0–0 |
| Interleague total | 12–9–3 |
| Total | 89–46–9 |

### Game log

Legend :
| | Giants win |
| | Giants loss |
| | Giants tie |
| | Postponement |
| Bold | Giants team member |
2009 Game Log :
April
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
1April 3Carp3–6Lewis (1–0)Greisinger (0–1)Nagakawa (1)44,1240–1–0
2April 4Carp3–5Maeda (1–0)Nakamura (0–1)Nagakawa (2)42,6500–2–0
3April 5Carp1–1 (12)Game tied after 12 innings42,2750–2–1
4April 7@ BayStars1–5Takahashi (1–0)Terahara (0–1)20,1681–2–1
5April 8@ BayStars1–12Fukuda (1–0)Kudoh (0–1)16,3612–2–1
6April 9@ BayStars2–9Greisinger (1–1)Walrond (0–1)16,6913–2–1
7April 10Tigers6–5Ochi (1–0)Egusa (1–1)Kroon (1)43,3564–2–1
8April 11Tigers4–1Tono (1–0)Nomi (0–2)Kroon (2)44,2845–2–1
9April 12Tigers6–6 (12)Game tied after 12 innings44,2465–2–2
—April 14@ SwallowsGame postponed due to rain
10April 15@ Swallows2–6Greisinger (2–1)Kida (1–1)20,0726–2–2
11April 16@ Swallows6–2Tateyama (1–0)Utsumi (0–1)16,5926–3–2
12April 17@ Dragons3–5Tono (2–0)Yoshimi (2–1)Kroon (3)35,6697–3–2
13April 18@ Dragons2–3Yamaguchi (1–0)Chen (1–1)Kroon (4)37,8838–3–2
14April 19@ Dragons5–6Nishimura (1–0)Nelson (0–1)Kroon (5)37,8159–3–2
15April 21Swallows4–0Greisinger (3–1)Kida (1–2)20,81710–3–2
16April 22Swallows3–2Yamaguchi (2–0)Igarashi (0–1)Kroon (6)15,87611–3–2
17April 23Swallows2–1Ochi (2–0)Oshimoto (0–2)20,12012–3–2
18April 24Dragons2–3 (10)Kobayashi (1–0)Ochi (2–1)Iwase (5)42,26212–4–2
19April 25Dragons5–4Toyoda (1–0)Iwase (0–1)43,70713–4–2
20April 26Dragons0–8Kawai (1–0)Greisinger (3–2)43,02013–5–2
21April 28@ Carp5–0Otake (1–1)Utsumi (0–2)24,42313–6–2
22April 29@ Carp2–0Saito (2–1)Tono (2–1)Nagakawa (8)31,77313–7–2
23April 30@ Carp4–7Fukuda (2–0)Maeda (2–3)Ochi (1)26,32214–7–2 :
May
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
24May 2@ Tigers5–6Yamaguchi (3–0)Fujikawa (1–1)Ochi (2)46,42515–7–2
25May 3@ Tigers0–4Gonzalez (1–0)Cheng (0–1)46,44016–7–2
26May 4@ Tigers6–0Shimoyanagi (2–2)Utsumi (0–3)46,43416–8–2
27May 5BayStars4–6Walrond (2–2)Tono (2–2)Yamaguchi (1)45,83516–9–2
28May 6BayStars3–2Yamaguchi (4–0)Sanada (0–1)43,18217–9–2
29May 7BayStars7–3Nishimura (2–0)Yamaguchi (2–1)40,13918–9–2
30May 8Dragons10–4Greisinger (4–2)Yamai (0–2)42,92719–9–2
31May 9Dragons3–1Gonzalez (2–0)Chen (2–2)Ochi (3)42,04720–9–2
32May 10Dragons8–7Nakamura (1–1)Saito (2–1)Ochi (4)43,18521–9–2
33May 12@ BayStars3–5Takahashi (2–0)Walrond (2–3)Ochi (5)19,69122–9–2
34May 13@ BayStars9–8Yamaguchi (3–1)Toyoda (1–1)20,41222–10–2
35May 14@ BayStars5–9Greisinger (5–2)Fujie (0–1)19,27923–10–2
36May 15@ Carp2–5Gonzalez (3–0)Aoki (0–2)Kroon (7)30,16424–10–2
37May 16@ Carp0–0 (12)Game tied after 12 innings29,79424–10–3
38May 17@ Carp1–2Ochi (3–1)Nagakawa (0–3)Kroon (8)29,70725–10–3
39May 19@ Fighters16–6Yagi (4–0)Takahashi (2–1)33,05025–11–3
40May 20@ Fighters6–5Hayashi (1–0)Greisinger (5–3)Takeda (10)33,60225–12–3
41May 22@ Eagles2–12Gonzalez (4–0)Nagai (3–2)20,17026–12–3
42May 23@ Eagles1–7Utsumi (1–3)Iwakuma (5–2)20,59927–12–3
43May 24Buffaloes6–8Hirano (1–1)Tono (2–3)42,11027–13–3
44May 25Buffaloes6–2Takahashi (3–1)Kondo (3–4)40,05728–13–3
45May 27Hawks3–5Houlton (3–3)Greisinger (5–4)Mahara (9)43,05028–14–3
46May 28Hawks8–2Gonzalez (5–0)Wada (3–3)42,21829–14–3
47May 30@ Lions2–2 (12)Game tied after 12 innings33,77829–14–4
48May 31@ Lions3–2 (10)Onodera (2–2)Kroon (0–1)33,17329–15–4 :
June
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
49June 2@ Marines0–0 (12)Game tied after 12 innings25,24929–15–5
50June 3@Marines
51June 5Fighters
52June 6Fighters
53June 7Eagles
54June 8Eagles
55June 10@Buffaloes
56June 11@Buffaloes
57June 13@Hawks
58June 14@Hawks
59June 16Lions
60June 17Lions
61June 20Marines
62June 21Marines
63June 26Swallows
64June 27Swallows
65June 28Swallows
66June 30@ Carp4–3 :
July
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
67July 1Carp
68July 2Carp
69July 3@Dragons
70July 4@Dragons
71July 5@Dragons
72July 7BayStars
73July 8BayStars
74July 9BayStars
75July 10@Tigers
76July 11@Tigers
77July 12@Tigers
78July 14@Swallows
79July 15@Swallows
80July 17Tigers
81July 18Tigers
82July 19Tigers
83July 20@BayStars
84July 21@BayStars
85July 22@BayStars
86July 28Dragons
87July 29Dragons
88July 30Dragons
89July 31@Tigers :
August
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
90August 1@Tigers
91August 2@Tigers
92August 4Carp
93August 5Carp
94August 7Swallows
95August 8Swallows
96August 9Swallows
97August 11@Carp
98August 12@Carp
99August 13@Carp
100August 14Tigers
101August 15Tigers
102August 16Tigers
103August 18BayStars
104August 19BayStars
105August 20BayStars
106August 21@Swallows
107August 22@Swallows
108August 23@Swallows
109August 25@Dragons
110August 26@Dragons
111August 27@Dragons
112August 28@Tigers
113August 29@Tigers
114August 30@Tigers :
September
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
115September 1BayStars
116September 2BayStars
117September 4Swallows
118September 5Swallows
119September 6Swallows
120September 8@BayStars
121September 9@BayStars
122September 10@BayStars
123September 11@Carp
124September 12@Carp
125September 13@Carp
126September 15Tigers
127September 16Tigers
128September 17Tigers
129September 18@Swallows
130September 19@Swallows
131September 20@Swallows
132September 21Dragons
133September 22Dragons
134September 23Dragons
135September 25Carp
136September 26Carp
137September 27Carp
138September 28@Dragons
139September 29@Dragons
140September 30@Dragons :

### Roster
## Postseason
### Climax Series
#### Stage 2
##### Game 1

| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Chunichi | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| Yomiuri | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| WP: Takashi Ogasawara (1–0) LP: Dicky Gonzalez (0–1) Home runs: CHU: Kei Nomoto (1), Tony Blanco (1) YOM: None |||||||||||||

##### Game 2

| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Chunichi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| Yomiuri | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 6 | 15 | 0 |
| WP: Wirfin Obispo (1–0) LP: Chen Wei-Yin (0–1) Sv: Marc Kroon (1) Home runs: CHU: Masahiko Morino (1), Atsushi Fujii (1) YOM: Shinnosuke Abe (1) |||||||||||||

##### Game 3

| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Chunichi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
| Yomiuri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | X | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| WP: Kiyoshi Toyoda (1–0) LP: Takuya Asao (0–1) Sv: Marc Kroon (2) Home runs: CHU: Masahiko Morino (2) YOM: Alex Ramírez (1), Yoshiyuki Kamei (1) |||||||||||||

##### Game 4

| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Chunichi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| Yomiuri | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 8 | 9 | 1 |
| WP: Daisuke Ochi (1–0) LP: Kenichi Nakata (0–1) Home runs: CHU: Tony Blanco (2) YOM: Yoshitomo Tani (1) |||||||||||||

### 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) |||||||||||||

## Player statistics
### Batting

| Player | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | AVG | SB |
| Shinnosuke Abe | 123 | 409 | 63 | 120 | 20 | 3 | 32 | 76 | .293 | 1 |
| Edgardo Alfonzo | 21 | 41 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .146 | 0 |
| Satoshi Fukuda | 9 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .063 | 0 |
| Shigeyuki Furuki | 77 | 179 | 14 | 45 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 18 | .251 | 3 |
| Dicky Gonzalez | 23 | 50 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .260 | 0 |
| Seth Greisinger | 25 | 48 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .125 | 0 |
| Takanori Hoshi | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Tomoya Inzen | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Ryuichi Kajimae | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Yoshiyuki Kamei | 134 | 490 | 79 | 142 | 25 | 4 | 25 | 71 | .290 | 12 |
| Ken Kato | 12 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | 0 |
| Shota Kimura | 25 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | 0 |
| Takuya Kimura | 86 | 186 | 17 | 43 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 16 | .231 | 1 |
| Hiroshi Kisanuki | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Yuya Kubo | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Takahito Kudo | 49 | 51 | 12 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .255 | 1 |
| Lee Seung-Yeop | 77 | 223 | 33 | 51 | 9 | 0 | 16 | 36 | .229 | 1 |
| Tetsuya Matsumoto | 129 | 372 | 55 | 109 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 15 | .293 | 16 |
| Daisuke Nakai | 18 | 30 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .233 | 2 |
| Micheal Nakamura | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Takahiko Nomaguchi | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Wirfin Obispo | 14 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .105 | 0 |
| Daisuke Ochi | 66 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Masakuni Odajima | 10 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .190 | 0 |
| Michihiro Ogasawara | 139 | 514 | 78 | 159 | 25 | 1 | 31 | 107 | .309 | 2 |
| Noriyoshi Omichi | 37 | 35 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .257 | 0 |
| Taishi Ota | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Alex Ramírez | 144 | 577 | 66 | 186 | 35 | 0 | 31 | 103 | .322 | 4 |
| Hayato Sakamoto | 141 | 581 | 87 | 178 | 33 | 3 | 18 | 62 | .306 | 5 |
| Takahiro Suzuki | 122 | 202 | 40 | 53 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 8 | .262 | 25 |
| Hisanori Takahashi | 25 | 39 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .128 | 0 |
| Yoshinobu Takahashi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Daijiro Tanaka | 5 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .083 | 0 |
| Yoshitomo Tani | 101 | 287 | 35 | 95 | 23 | 1 | 11 | 48 | .331 | 3 |
| Takayuki Terauchi | 78 | 84 | 7 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .167 | 2 |
| Masafumi Togano | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Shun Tono | 27 | 44 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .091 | 0 |
| Hidetoshi Tsuburaya | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .500 | 0 |
| Kazunari Tsuruoka | 59 | 142 | 17 | 37 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 18 | .261 | 1 |
| Tetsuya Utsumi | 27 | 50 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .100 | 0 |
| Ryota Wakiya | 89 | 231 | 26 | 62 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 16 | .268 | 5 |
| Tetsuya Yamaguchi | 73 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 |
| Kenji Yano | 6 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .111 | 0 |
    Indicates CL leader in the category
| Player | W | L | ERA | G | Win% | SV | IP | R | ER | BB | K |
| Soichi Fujita | 1 | 0 | 2.08 | 19 | 1.000 | 0 | 17+1⁄3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| Takuya Fukata | 0 | 0 | 9.00 | 8 | .000 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Satoshi Fukuda | 2 | 0 | 3.48 | 9 | 1.000 | 0 | 44 | 24 | 17 | 17 | 31 |
| Yuki Furukawa | 0 | 0 | 4.50 | 6 | .000 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Dicky Gonzalez | 15 | 2 | 2.11 | 23 | .882 | 0 | 162 | 42 | 38 | 25 | 113 |
| Seth Greisinger | 13 | 6 | 3.47 | 25 | .684 | 0 | 161 | 77 | 62 | 26 | 91 |
| Norihito Kaneto | 1 | 0 | 3.60 | 6 | 1.000 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Shota Kimura | 0 | 0 | 3.38 | 25 | .000 | 0 | 29+1⁄3 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 23 |
| Hiroshi Kisanuki | 0 | 0 | 10.13 | 1 | .000 | 0 | 2+2⁄3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Marc Kroon | 1 | 3 | 1.26 | 46 | .250 | 27 | 50 | 10 | 7 | 19 | 57 |
| Yuya Kubo | 1 | 0 | 3.29 | 7 | 1.000 | 0 | 27+1⁄3 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 25 |
| Micheal Nakamura | 1 | 2 | 6.18 | 29 | .333 | 0 | 27+2⁄3 | 19 | 19 | 9 | 28 |
| Kentaro Nishimura | 2 | 0 | 4.97 | 11 | 1.000 | 0 | 12+2⁄3 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 10 |
| Takahiko Nomaguchi | 0 | 1 | 4.97 | 25 | .000 | 1 | 29 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 28 |
| Wirfin Obispo | 6 | 1 | 2.45 | 14 | .857 | 0 | 58+2⁄3 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 48 |
| Daisuke Ochi | 8 | 3 | 3.30 | 66 | .727 | 10 | 71 | 28 | 26 | 20 | 70 |
| Hisanori Takahashi | 10 | 6 | 2.94 | 25 | .625 | 0 | 144 | 58 | 47 | 36 | 126 |
| Masafumi Togano | 0 | 0 | 4.05 | 5 | .000 | 0 | 6+2⁄3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Shun Tono | 8 | 8 | 3.17 | 27 | .500 | 0 | 153+1⁄3 | 61 | 54 | 57 | 133 |
| Kiyoshi Toyoda | 2 | 2 | 1.99 | 46 | .500 | 5 | 40+2⁄3 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 32 |
| Tetsuya Utsumi | 9 | 11 | 2.96 | 27 | .450 | 0 | 179+2⁄3 | 66 | 59 | 36 | 115 |
| Tetsuya Yamaguchi | 9 | 1 | 1.27 | 73 | .900 | 4 | 78 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 62 |
    Indicates CL leader in the category