2009 Nippon Professional Baseball season

2009 2009 NPB season Nippon Professional Baseball Baseball April 3 – November 7 Central League pennant Yomiuri Giants Chunichi Dragons Alex Ramírez (Yomiuri) Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award Pacific League pennant Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Yu Darvish (Nippon Ham) Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award Climax Series Climax Series CL 2009 Central League Climax Series Yomiuri Giants Chunichi Dragons PL 2009 Pacific League Climax Series Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Japan Series 2009 Japan Series Sapporo Dome, Sapporo, Hokkaidō Tokyo Dome, Bunkyō, Tokyo Yomiuri Giants Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Shinnosuke Abe (Yomiuri) Japan Series Most Valuable Player Award List of Nippon Professional Baseball seasons NPB 2008 Nippon Professional Baseball season 2008 2010 Nippon Professional Baseball season 2010 The 2009 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 60th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950 Regular season standings Central League main WDL 2009 Central League regular season standings Central n y y none y % YOM Yomiuri Giants 89 46 9 CHU Chunichi Dragons 81 62 1 TOK Tokyo Yakult Swallows 71 72 1 HAN Hanshin Tigers 67 73 4 HIR Hiroshima Carp 65 75 4 YOK Yokohama BayStars 51 93 0 complete Pacific League main WDLHA 2009 Pacific League regular season standings Pacific none % y y y y HOK Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 46 25 1 36 35 1 TOH Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 39 32 1 38 34 0 FUK Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 40 28 4 34 37 1 y SAI Saitama Seibu Lions 38 32 2 32 38 2 CHI Chiba Lotte Marines 37 31 4 25 46 1 ORI Orix Buffaloes 32 40 0 24 46 2 complete https://npb.jp/bis/eng/2009/stats/std_p.html 2009 Pacific League Standings Nippon Professional Baseball January 31, 2021 Climax Series 2009 Central League Climax Series 2009 Pacific League Climax Series Note: All of the games that are played in the first two rounds of the Climax Series are held at the higher seed's home stadium. The team with the higher regular-season standing also advances if the round ends in a tie. 200 First stage Final stage Japan Series Central League Pacific League 2 Chunichi Dragons 2 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1 2 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 2 3 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 0 1 Yomiuri Giants 4 2 Chunichi Dragons 1 1 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 4 2 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 1 CL1 Yomiuri Giants 4 PL1 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 2 Central League first stage Chunichi Dragons win the series, 2-1 GameScoreDateLocationAttendance1 Chunichi Dragons 2 – 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows October 17Nagoya Dome38,3912 Chunichi Dragons 3 – 2 Tokyo Yakult SwallowsOctober 18Nagoya Dome38,1713 Chunichi Dragons 7 – 4 Tokyo Yakult SwallowsOctober 19Nagoya Dome32,897 Central League second stage Yomiuri Giants have one-win advantage GameScoreDateLocationAttendance1 Yomiuri Giants 2 – 7 Chunichi Dragons October 21Tokyo Dome41,2592 Yomiuri Giants 6 – 4 Chunichi Dragons October 22Tokyo Dome40,4523 Yomiuri Giants 5 – 4 Chunichi Dragons October 23Tokyo Dome45,4094 Yomiuri Giants 8 – 2 Chunichi Dragons October 24Tokyo Dome46,535 Yomiuri Giants win the series, 4-1 Pacific League first stage Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles win the series, 2-0 GameScoreDateLocationAttendance1 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 11 – 4 Fukuoka SoftBank HawksOctober 16Miyagi Baseball Stadium21,3032 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 4 – 1 Fukuoka SoftBank HawksOctober 17Miyagi Baseball Stadium21,388 Pacific League second stage Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters have one-win advantage GameScoreDateLocationAttendance1 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 9 – 8 Tohoku Rakuten Golden EaglesOctober 21Sapporo Dome38,2352 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 3 – 1 Tohoku Rakuten Golden EaglesOctober 22Sapporo Dome32,7133 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 2 – 3 Tohoku Rakuten Golden EaglesOctober 23Sapporo Dome42,3284 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 9 – 4 Tohoku Rakuten Golden EaglesOctober 24Sapporo Dome42,328 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters win the series, 4-1 Japan Series 2009 Japan Series CL Yomiuri Giants (4) vs. PL Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (2) October 31 Yomiuri Giants 4 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 3 Sapporo Dome 3:18 40,650 November 1 Yomiuri Giants 2 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 4 Sapporo Dome 2:52 40,718 November 3 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 4 Yomiuri Giants 7 Tokyo Dome 3:11 45,150 November 4 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 8 Yomiuri Giants 4 Tokyo Dome 3:38 45,133 November 5 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 2 Yomiuri Giants 3 Tokyo Dome 2:57 45,160 November 7 Yomiuri Giants 2 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 0 Sapporo Dome 3:02 40,714 See also 2009 Korea Professional Baseball season 2009 Major League Baseball season References External links Official Website en Official Website ja Category:Nippon Professional Baseball seasons