The 2009
Orix Buffaloes
The are a Nippon Professional Baseball team formed as a result of the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment by the merger of the Orix BlueWave of Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of Osaka, Osaka Prefecture ...
season features the Buffaloes quest to win their first
Pacific League
The , or , or the , due to sponsorship reasons, is one of the two professional baseball leagues constituting Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship competes against the winner in the Central League for the a ...
title under their current franchise configuration.
Regular season
Standings
Game log
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, 1 , , April 3 , ,
@Hawks ,
8 - 0, ,
Wada (1-0) , ,
Komatsu (0-1) , , , , 30,106 , , 0-1-0
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, 2 , , April 4 , ,
@Hawks ,
2 - 5, ,
Kondo (1-0) , ,
Oba (0-1) , ,
Kato (1) , , 28,827 , , 1-1-0
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, 3 , , April 5 , ,
@Hawks ,
2 - 1(10) , ,
Kamiuchi (1-0) , ,
Kawagoe (0-1) , , , , 29,576 , , 1-2-0
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, 4 , , April 7 , ,
@Lions ,
8 - 3, ,
Kishi (1-0) , ,
Kaneko
, stylized as KANEJapanese @Lions ,
2 - 10, ,
Yamamoto (1-0) , ,
Ishii (0-1) , , , , 10,001 , , 2-3-0
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, 6 , , April 9 , ,
@Lions ,
13 - 6, ,
Nishiguchi (1-0) , ,
Hirano (0-1) , , , , 9,813 , , 2-4-0
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, 7 , , April 10 , ,
Marines
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10 - 8, ,
Katsuki (1-0) , ,
Shimizu (0-2) , , , , 27,827 , , 3-4-0
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, 8 , , April 11 , ,
Marines
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5 - 2, ,
Kondo (2-0) , ,
Kobayashi
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Arts
Film, television, theater and music
*, Japanese actress and voice a ...
(0-1) , ,
Kato (2) , , 30,444 , , 4-4-0
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, 9 , , April 12 , ,
Marines
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4 - 1, ,
Kishida (1-0) , ,
Ono (0-1) , ,
Kato (3) , , 31,597 , , 5-4-0
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, 10 , , April 14 , ,
@Fighters ,
7 - 8, ,
Kaneko
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Kato (4) , , 17,548 , , 6-4-0
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, 11 , , April 15 , ,
@Fighters ,
11 - 5, ,
Kikuchi (1-0) , ,
Motoyanagi (0-1) , , , , 17,579 , , 6-5-0
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, 12 , , April 16 , ,
@Fighters ,
7 - 1, ,