# 2009 Chiba Lotte Marines season

The 2009 Chiba Lotte Marines season features the Marines quest to win their first Pacific League title since 2005. This was the final season that Bobby Valentine managed the Marines.

## 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 :
April
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
1April 3Lions2 - 5Wakui (1-0)Shimizu (0-1)Graman (1)30,0410-1-0
2April 4Lions10 - 5Komiyama (1-0)Hoashi (0-1)26,8191-1-0
3April 5Lions6 - 5Sikorski (1-0)Graman (0-1)24,3132-1-0
4April 7@Fighters9 - 1Tadano (1-0)Karakawa (0-1)17,5682-2-0
5April 8@Fighters8 - 7Tateyama (1-0)Sikorski (1-1)Takeda (1)18,8532-3-0
6April 10@Buffaloes10 - 8Katsuki (1-0)Shimizu (0-2)27,8272-4-0
7April 11@Buffaloes5 - 2Kondo (2-0)Kobayashi (0-1)Kato (2)30,4442-5-0
8April 12@Buffaloes4 - 1Kishida (1-0)Ono (0-1)Kato (3)31,5972-6-0
9April 14Eagles1 - 2Tanaka (2-0)Watanabe (0-1)9,2472-7-0
10April 15Eagles7 - 1Karakawa (1-1)Asai (0-2)16,2353-7-0
11April 16Eagles11 - 7 (10)Sikorski (2-1)Koyama (0-1)13,9844-7-0
12April 17Hawks2 - 1 (11)Ogino (1-0)Settsu (0-1)10,3675-7-0
13April 18Hawks4 - 7Kume (1-0)Ito (0-1)Mahara (2)23,2255-8-0
14April 19Hawks5 - 12Sugiuchi (2-0)Kobayashi (0-2)25,5375-9-0
—April 21@EaglesPostponed (rained out)
15April 22@Eagles2 - 0Tanaka (3-0)Watanabe (0-2)12,9095-10-0
16April 23@Eagles2 - 5Ono (1-1)Hasebe (0-2)Ogino (1)11,4446-10-0
17April 24@Lions3 - 1Wakui (3-1)Karakawa (1-2)12,6186-11-0
18April 25@Lions2 - 3Naruse (1-0)Hoashi (0-2)Ogino (2)23,1477-11-0
19April 26@Lions5 - 11Omine (1-0)Wasdin (0-2)23,6478-11-0
20April 28Buffaloes3 - 4Kato (2-0)Sikorski (2-2)13,1988-12-0
21April 29Buffaloes3 - 5Kaneko (2-2)Watanabe (0-3)Kato (5)24,7568-13-0
22April 30Buffaloes5 - 2Ito (1-1)Kikuchihara (0-1)12,2129-13-0 :
May
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
23May 1@Hawks6 - 2Wada (2-2)Ono (1-2)26,8309-14-0
24May 2@Hawks4 - 9Karakawa (2-2)Arakaki (0-1)30,23910-14-0
25May 3@Hawks7 - 2Sugiuchi (3-1)Naruse (1-1)34,04010-15-0
26May 4Fighters7 - 10Tadano (2-2)Omine (1-1)Takeda (6)30,05810-16-0
27May 5Fighters0 - 2 (5)Yagi (2-0)Kobayashi (0-3)22,72610-17-0
28May 6Fighters7 - 3Watanabe (1-3)Sweeney (0-3)23,13911-17-0
29May 8Eagles4 - 3Shimizu (1-2)Nagai (3-1)Ogino (3)13,26312-17-0
30May 9Eagles2 - 6Iwakuma (4-1)Ono (1-3)24,66812-18-0
31May 10Eagles6 - 0Karakawa (3-2)Rasner (2-2)24,02313-18-0
32May 12@Hawks1 - 2Naruse (2-1)Houlton (2-3)Ogino (4)25,23114-18-0
33May 13@Hawks0 - 7Omine (2-1)Otonari (1-3)16,24215-18-0
34May 14@Hawks5 - 4Falkenborg (1-0)Ogino (1-1)29,67115-19-0
35May 15Lions0 - 18Wakui (4-1)Watanabe (1-4)17,56715-20-0
36May 16Lions6 - 4Ito (2-1)Onuma (1-2)Ogino (5)20,07416-20-0
37May 17Lions8 - 5Ono (2-3)Hirano (0-1)Ogino (6)14,36317-20-0
38May 19BayStars2 - 1Karakawa (4-2)Ishii (0-5)16,38718-20-0
39May 20BayStars1 - 4Walrond (3-3)Naruse (2-2)Yamaguchi (2-2)17,01918-21-0
40May 22Dragons1 - 4Yoshimi (4-2)Omine (2-2)Iwase (10)14,66018-22-0
41May 23Dragons2 - 1Sikorski (3-2)Hirai (0-1)28,11719-22-0
—May 24@TigersNo game (called after 4 innings)
42May 25@Tigers4 - 3Kubo (1-2)Shimizu (1-3)Fujikawa (3)43,47419-23-0
43May 26@Tigers2 - 3Sikorski (4-2)Fujikawa (1-3)Ogino (7)26,68020-23-0
44May 27@Carp8 - 3Maeda (3-5)Karakawa (4-3)22,51320-24-0
45May 28@Carp4 - 3Lewis (3-2)Kobayashi (0-4)Nagakawa (14)12,04820-25-0
46May 30Swallows6 - 3Naruse (3-2)Tanaka (0-1)15,43121-25-0
47May 31Swallows1 - 7Kawashima (4-3)Omine (2-3)27,31021-26-0 :
June
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
48June 2Giants0 - 0 (12)Game tied after 12 innings25,24921-26-1
49June 3Giants
50June 5@Dragons
51June 6@Dragons
52June 7@BayStars
53June 8@BayStars
54June 10Carp
55June 11Carp
56June 13Tigers
57June 14Tigers
58June 17@Swallows
59June 18@Swallows
60June 20@Giants
61June 21@Giants
62June 26Fighters
63June 27Fighters
64June 28Fighters
65June 30@Lions :

## Player stats
### Batting

| Player | G | AB | H | Avg. | HR | RBI | SB |

### Pitching

| Player | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | ERA | SO |