2009 Hiroshima Toyo Carp season
# 2009 Hiroshima Toyo Carp season

The 2009 Hiroshima Toyo Carp season features the Carp quest to win their first Central League title since 1991.

## Regular season

### Standings

2009 Central League regular season standings :

| Teamvte | Pld | W | L | T | PCT | GB |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Yomiuri Giants | 144 | 89 | 46 | 9 | .649 | — |
| Chunichi Dragons | 144 | 81 | 62 | 1 | .566 | 12 |
| Tokyo Yakult Swallows | 144 | 71 | 72 | 1 | .497 | 22 |
| Hanshin Tigers | 144 | 67 | 73 | 4 | .479 | 24.5 |
| Hiroshima Carp | 144 | 65 | 75 | 4 | .465 | 26.5 |
| Yokohama BayStars | 144 | 51 | 93 | 0 | .354 | 42.5 |

### Game log

2009 Game Log :

April

#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord

1April 3@Giants3 - 6Lewis (1-0)Greisinger (0-1)Nagakawa (1)44,1241-0-0

2April 4@Giants3 - 5K. Maeda (1-0)Nakamura (0-1)Nagakawa (2)42,6502-0-0

3April 5@Giants1 - 1 (12)Game tied after 12 innings42,2752-0-1

4April 7@Tigers11 - 10Egusa (1-0)Nagakawa (0-1)46,3072-1-1

5April 8@Tigers8 - 2Shimoyanagi (1-0)Saito (0-1)42,3002-2-1

6April 9@Tigers2 - 4Hasegawa (1-0)Ishikawa (0-1)Nagakawa (3)38,7333-2-1

7April 10Dragons3 - 11Yoshimi (2-0)Lewis (1-1)Nelson (1)30,6183-3-1

8April 11Dragons2 - 0K. Maeda (2-0)Shimizu (0-1)30,2684-3-1

9April 12Dragons10 - 0Shinoda (1-0)Yamamoto (0-1)30,1395-3-1

10April 14BayStars1 - 4Terahara (1-1)Otake (1-1)Ishii (2)13,4365-4-1

11April 15BayStars3 - 2Umetsu (1-0)Mastny (0-1)Nagakawa (4)17,2886-4-1

12April 16BayStars1 - 2 (10)Yamaguchi (2-0)Nagakawa (0-2)Ishii (3)14,4766-5-1

13April 17@Swallows6 - 1Ishikawa (2-1)T. Aoki (0-1)10,8656-6-1

14April 18@Swallows1 - 0Sato (2-1)K. Maeda (2-1)Lim (4)25,4556-7-1

15April 19@Swallows8 - 2R. Kawashima (2-1)Shinoda (1-1)17,7026-8-1

—April 21@BayStarsPostponed (rained out)

16April 22@BayStars4 - 5Schultz (1-0)Ishii (0-1)Nagakawa (5)16,9487-8-1

17April 23@BayStars2 - 0Saito (1-1)Walrond (0-2)Nagakawa (6)16,7728-8-1

18April 24Tigers0 - 4Nomi (2-2)K. Maeda (2-2)24,4178-9-1

19April 25Tigers1 - 12Fukuhara (1-2)Hasegawa (1-1)28,4008-10-1

20April 26Tigers2 - 1Shinoda (2-1)Atchison (1-1)Nagakawa (7)30,5289-10-1

21April 28Giants5 - 0Otake (1-1)Utsumi (0-2)24,42310-10-1

22April 29Giants2 - 0Saito (2-1)Tono (2-1)Nagakawa (8)31,77311-10-1

23April 30Giants4 - 7Fukuda (2-0)K. Maeda (2-3)Ochi (1-1)26,32211-11-1 :

May

#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord

24May 2Swallows9 - 2Umetsu (2-0)Ichiba (1-2)31,42712-11-1

25May 3Swallows2 - 3Kida (3-2)Yokoyama (0-1)Lim (7)31,62212-12-1

26May 4Swallows3 - 5Oshimoto (1-2)Makino (0-1)Lim (8)31,83412-13-1

27May 5@Dragons0 - 2Otake (2-1)Asakura (2-2)Nagakawa (9)37,49413-13-1

28May 6@Dragons4 - 2Asao (3-3)Saito (2-2)Iwase (6)36,15913-14-1

29May 7@Dragons4 - 3Saito (2-0)Umetsu (2-1)26,97813-15-1

30May 9@Swallows1 - 4Lewis (2-1)R. Kawashima (2-2)Nagakawa (10)19,11914-15-1

31May 10@Swallows4 - 1Tateyama (3-0)Hayashi (0-1)Lim (10)14,89114-16-1

32May 12@Tigers1 - 0Shimoyanagi (3-2)Yokoyama (0-2)41,55814-17-1

33May 13@Tigers1 - 2 (10)Yokoyama (1-2)Fujikawa (1-2)Nagakawa (11)43,89915-17-1

34May 14@Tigers7 - 1Ando (3-2)K. Maeda (2-4)40,59915-18-1

35May 15Giants2 - 5Gonzalez (3-0)T. Aoki (0-2)Kroon (7)30,16415-19-1

36May 16Giants0 - 0 (12)Game tied after 12 innings29,79415-19-2

37May 17Giants1 - 2Ochi (3-1)Nagakawa (0-3)Kroon (8)29,70715-20-2

38May 19@Buffaloes1 - 9Otake (3-1)Kondo (3-3)9,88716-20-2

39May 20@Buffaloes10 - 3Yamamoto (3-2)K. Maeda (2-5)11,10716-21-2

40May 22@Hawks6 - 3Wada (3-2)Lewis (2-2)Mahara (6)29,32716-22-2

41May 23@Hawks5 - 4Mizuta (2-0)Saito (2-3)Mahara (7)32,22116-23-2

42May 24Lions7 - 5Komatsu (1-0)Nishiguchi (3-2)Nagakawa (12)28,30917-23-2

43May 25Lions3 - 0Otake (4-1)Kishi (6-1)Nagakawa (13)24,55818-23-2

44May 27Marines8 - 3K. Maeda (3-5)Karakawa (4-3)22,51319-23-2

45May 28Marines4 - 3Lewis (3-2)H. Kobayashi (0-4)Nagakawa (14)12,04820-23-2

—May 30@EaglesPostponed (rained out)

46May 31@Eagles4 - 5Otake (5-1)Iwakuma (5-3)Nagakawa (15)18,01521-23-2 :

June

#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord

47June 1@Eagles0 - 2Saito (3-3)Hasebe (3-4)Nagakawa (16)10,40222-23-2

48June 2@Fighters1-2K. Maeda (4-5)Itokazu (0-2)Nagakawa (17)20,25223-23-2

49June 3@Fighters7-2Tateyama (2-2)Yokoyama (1-3)22,25723-24-2

50June 5Hawks4-1 (7)Mori (1-0)Ohba (0-2)Schultz (1)28,81424-24-2

51June 6Hawks1-11 (7)Germano (1-0)Ohtake (5-2)31,73724-25-2

52June 7Buffaloes6-1Sato (4-3)Hirano (2-2)28,74725-25-2

53June 8Buffaloes

54June 10@Marines

55June 11@Marines

56June 13@Lions

57June 14@Lions

58June 17Eagles

59June 18Eagles

60June 20Fighters

61June 21Fighters

62June 26Dragons

63June 27Dragons

64June 28Dragons

65June 30@Giants :

## Player stats

### Batting

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

### Pitching

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