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	Team	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

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Game log

2009 Game Log
April # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 1 April 3 Lions 2 - 5 Wakui (1-0) Shimizu (0-1) Graman (1) 30,041 0-1-0 2 April 4 Lions 10 - 5 Komiyama (1-0) Hoashi (0-1) 26,819 1-1-0 3 April 5 Lions 6 - 5 Sikorski (1-0) Graman (0-1) 24,313 2-1-0 4 April 7 @Fighters 9 - 1 Tadano (1-0) Karakawa (0-1) 17,568 2-2-0 5 April 8 @Fighters 8 - 7 Tateyama (1-0) Sikorski (1-1) Takeda (1) 18,853 2-3-0 6 April 10 @Buffaloes 10 - 8 Katsuki (1-0) Shimizu (0-2) 27,827 2-4-0 7 April 11 @Buffaloes 5 - 2 Kondo (2-0) Kobayashi (0-1) Kato (2) 30,444 2-5-0 8 April 12 @Buffaloes 4 - 1 Kishida (1-0) Ono (0-1) Kato (3) 31,597 2-6-0 9 April 14 Eagles 1 - 2 Tanaka (2-0) Watanabe (0-1) 9,247 2-7-0 10 April 15 Eagles 7 - 1 Karakawa (1-1) Asai (0-2) 16,235 3-7-0 11 April 16 Eagles 11 - 7 (10) Sikorski (2-1) Koyama (0-1) 13,984 4-7-0 12 April 17 Hawks 2 - 1 (11) Ogino (1-0) Settsu (0-1) 10,367 5-7-0 13 April 18 Hawks 4 - 7 Kume (1-0) Ito (0-1) Mahara (2) 23,225 5-8-0 14 April 19 Hawks 5 - 12 Sugiuchi (2-0) Kobayashi (0-2) 25,537 5-9-0 — April 21 @Eagles Postponed (rained out) 15 April 22 @Eagles 2 - 0 Tanaka (3-0) Watanabe (0-2) 12,909 5-10-0 16 April 23 @Eagles 2 - 5 Ono (1-1) Hasebe (0-2) Ogino (1) 11,444 6-10-0 17 April 24 @Lions 3 - 1 Wakui (3-1) Karakawa (1-2) 12,618 6-11-0 18 April 25 @Lions 2 - 3 Naruse (1-0) Hoashi (0-2) Ogino (2) 23,147 7-11-0 19 April 26 @Lions 5 - 11 Omine (1-0) Wasdin (0-2) 23,647 8-11-0 20 April 28 Buffaloes 3 - 4 Kato (2-0) Sikorski (2-2) 13,198 8-12-0 21 April 29 Buffaloes 3 - 5 Kaneko (2-2) Watanabe (0-3) Kato (5) 24,756 8-13-0 22 April 30 Buffaloes 5 - 2 Ito (1-1) Kikuchihara (0-1) 12,212 9-13-0
May # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 23 May 1 @Hawks 6 - 2 Wada (2-2) Ono (1-2) 26,830 9-14-0 24 May 2 @Hawks 4 - 9 Karakawa (2-2) Arakaki (0-1) 30,239 10-14-0 25 May 3 @Hawks 7 - 2 Sugiuchi (3-1) Naruse (1-1) 34,040 10-15-0 26 May 4 Fighters 7 - 10 Tadano (2-2) Omine (1-1) Takeda (6) 30,058 10-16-0 27 May 5 Fighters 0 - 2 (5) Yagi (2-0) Kobayashi (0-3) 22,726 10-17-0 28 May 6 Fighters 7 - 3 Watanabe (1-3) Sweeney (0-3) 23,139 11-17-0 29 May 8 Eagles 4 - 3 Shimizu (1-2) Nagai (3-1) Ogino (3) 13,263 12-17-0 30 May 9 Eagles 2 - 6 Iwakuma (4-1) Ono (1-3) 24,668 12-18-0 31 May 10 Eagles 6 - 0 Karakawa (3-2) Rasner (2-2) 24,023 13-18-0 32 May 12 @Hawks 1 - 2 Naruse (2-1) Houlton (2-3) Ogino (4) 25,231 14-18-0 33 May 13 @Hawks 0 - 7 Omine (2-1) Otonari (1-3) 16,242 15-18-0 34 May 14 @Hawks 5 - 4 Falkenborg (1-0) Ogino (1-1) 29,671 15-19-0 35 May 15 Lions 0 - 18 Wakui (4-1) Watanabe (1-4) 17,567 15-20-0 36 May 16 Lions 6 - 4 Ito (2-1) Onuma (1-2) Ogino (5) 20,074 16-20-0 37 May 17 Lions 8 - 5 Ono (2-3) Hirano (0-1) Ogino (6) 14,363 17-20-0 38 May 19 BayStars 2 - 1 Karakawa (4-2) Ishii (0-5) 16,387 18-20-0 39 May 20 BayStars 1 - 4 Walrond (3-3) Naruse (2-2) Yamaguchi (2-2) 17,019 18-21-0 40 May 22 Dragons 1 - 4 Yoshimi (4-2) Omine (2-2) Iwase (10) 14,660 18-22-0 41 May 23 Dragons 2 - 1 Sikorski (3-2) Hirai (0-1) 28,117 19-22-0 — May 24 @Tigers No game (called after 4 innings) 42 May 25 @Tigers 4 - 3 Kubo (1-2) Shimizu (1-3) Fujikawa (3) 43,474 19-23-0 43 May 26 @Tigers 2 - 3 Sikorski (4-2) Fujikawa (1-3) Ogino (7) 26,680 20-23-0 44 May 27 @Carp 8 - 3 Maeda (3-5) Karakawa (4-3) 22,513 20-24-0 45 May 28 @Carp 4 - 3 Lewis (3-2) Kobayashi (0-4) Nagakawa (14) 12,048 20-25-0 46 May 30 Swallows 6 - 3 Naruse (3-2) Tanaka (0-1) 15,431 21-25-0 47 May 31 Swallows 1 - 7 Kawashima (4-3) Omine (2-3) 27,310 21-26-0
June # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 48 June 2 Giants 0 - 0 (12) Game tied after 12 innings 25,249 21-26-1 49 June 3 Giants 50 June 5 @Dragons 51 June 6 @Dragons 52 June 7 @BayStars 53 June 8 @BayStars 54 June 10 Carp 55 June 11 Carp 56 June 13 Tigers 57 June 14 Tigers 58 June 17 @Swallows 59 June 18 @Swallows 60 June 20 @Giants 61 June 21 @Giants 62 June 26 Fighters 63 June 27 Fighters 64 June 28 Fighters 65 June 30 @Lions

Player stats

Batting

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI	SB

Pitching

Player	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	ERA	SO