# 2009 Orix Buffaloes season

The 2009 Orix Buffaloes season features the Buffaloes quest to win their first Pacific League title under their current franchise configuration.

## 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 3@Hawks8 - 0Wada (1-0)Komatsu (0-1)30,1060-1-0
2April 4@Hawks2 - 5Kondo (1-0)Oba (0-1)Kato (1)28,8271-1-0
3April 5@Hawks2 - 1 (10)Kamiuchi (1-0)Kawagoe (0-1)29,5761-2-0
4April 7@Lions8 - 3Kishi (1-0)Kaneko (0-1)24,0111-3-0
5April 8@Lions2 - 10Yamamoto (1-0)Ishii (0-1)10,0012-3-0
6April 9@Lions13 - 6Nishiguchi (1-0)Hirano (0-1)9,8132-4-0
7April 10Marines10 - 8Katsuki (1-0)Shimizu (0-2)27,8273-4-0
8April 11Marines5 - 2Kondo (2-0)Kobayashi (0-1)Kato (2)30,4444-4-0
9April 12Marines4 - 1Kishida (1-0)Ono (0-1)Kato (3)31,5975-4-0
10April 14@Fighters7 - 8Kaneko (1-1)Tadano (1-1)Kato (4)17,5486-4-0
11April 15@Fighters11 - 5Kikuchi (1-0)Motoyanagi (0-1)17,5796-5-0
12April 16@Fighters7 - 1Takeda (1-0)Nakayama (0-1)20,7026-6-0
13April 18Eagles0 - 7Iwakuma (2-1)Kondo (2-1)20,5986-7-0
14April 19Eagles15 - 0Kishida (2-0)Rasner (1-1)21,5617-7-0
15April 21Lions1 - 7Kishi (3-0)Kaneko (1-2)10,3267-8-0
16April 22Lions6 - 3Yamamoto (2-0)Ishii (0-2)10,8058-8-0
17April 23Lions2 - 1Kato (1-0)Onuma (0-1)10,5869-8-0
18April 24Fighters0 - 11Darvish (3-1)Komatsu (0-2)18,7249-9-0
—April 25FightersPostponed (rained out)
19April 26Fighters11 - 3Kishida (3-0)Sakakibara (0-1)13,22310-9-0
20April 28@Marines3 - 4Kato (2-0)Sikorski (2-2)13,19811-9-0
21April 29@Marines3 - 5Kaneko (2-2)Watanabe (0-3)Kato (5)24,75612-9-0
22April 30@Marines5 - 2Ito (1-1)Kikuchihara (0-1)12,21212-10-0 :
May
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
23May 1@Eagles12 - 2Nagai (3-0)Nakayama (0-2)12,26212-11-0
24May 2@Eagles7 - 3Iwakuma (3-1)Komatsu (0-3)20,24612-12-0
25May 3@Eagles8 - 4Koyama (1-1)Kishida (3-1)20,61912-13-0
26May 4Hawks8 - 5Kondo (3-1)Loe (0-4)Kato (6)30,25213-13-0
27May 5Hawks2 - 1Kaneko (3-2)Houlton (2-2)31,63914-13-0
28May 6Hawks1 - 5Otonari (1-2)Yamamoto (2-1)30,96014-14-0
29May 8@Fighters10 - 1Darvish (4-1)Nakayama (0-3)26,63814-15-0
30May 9@Fighters3 - 2Fujii (2-1)Komatsu (0-4)Takeda (7)26,30814-16-0
31May 10@Fighters7 - 2Takeda (2-1)Yoshino (0-1)28,15614-17-0
32May 12Lions5 - 6Kishi (6-0)Kondo (3-2)Onodera (2)10,50214-18-0
33May 13Lions3 - 8Ishii (2-3)Yamamoto (2-2)10,45414-19-0
34May 14Lions1 - 3Nishiguchi (3-1)Kaneko (3-3)Onodera (3)10,22914-20-0
35May 15Fighters2 - 4Darvish (5-1)Nakayama (0-4)Takeda (8)11,40514-21-0
36May 16Fighters3 - 7Fujii (3-1)Komatsu (0-5)Takeda (9)21,96514-22-0
37May 17Fighters6 - 0Mitsuhara (1-0)Takeda (2-2)19,46715-22-0
38May 19Carp1 - 9Otake (3-1)Kondo (3-3)9,88715-23-0
39May 20Carp10 - 3Yamamoto (3-2)Maeda (2-5)11,10716-23-0
40May 22Tigers8 - 3Kaneko (4-3)Ando (3-3)Kato (7)23,43317-23-0
41May 23Tigers3 - 7Atchison (3-1)Vogelsong (0-1)28,03117-24-0
42May 24@Giants6 - 8Hirano (1-1)Tono (2-3)42,11018-24-0
43May 25@Giants6 - 2Takahashi (3-1)Kondo (3-4)40,05718-25-0
44May 27@Swallows5 - 4Matsuoka (3-0)Katsuki (1-1)Lim (15)12,01418-26-0
45May 28@Swallows4 - 0Tateyama (6-0)Mitsuhara (1-1)7,34818-27-0
46May 30BayStars6 - 4Kaneko (5-3)Glynn (2-6)Kato (8)11,21719-27-0
47May 31BayStars3 - 0Hirano (2-1)Kobayashi (1-5)14,85720-27-0 :
June
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
48June 2Dragons
49June 3Dragons
50June 5@Tigers
51June 6@Tigers
52June 7@Carp
53June 8@Carp
54June 10Giants
55June 11Giants
56June 13Swallows
57June 14Swallows
58June 16@BayStars
59June 17@BayStars
60June 20@Dragons
61June 21@Dragons
62June 26Eagles
63June 27Eagles
64June 28Eagles
65June 30@Hawks :

## Player stats
### Batting

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

### Pitching

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