2009 Pacific League Climax Series

2009 Pacific League Climax Series
First stage
Team (Wins) Manager Season Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles  (2) Katsuya Nomura 77–66–1 (.538), 5½ GB Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks  (0) Koji Akiyama 74–65–5 (.532), 6½ GB
Dates	October 16–17
Second stage
Team (Wins) Manager Season Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters  (4) Masataka Nashida 82–60–2 (.577), 5½ GA Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (1) Katsuya Nomura 77–66–1 (.538), 5½ GB
Dates	October 21–24
MVP	Terrmel Sledge (Nippon-Ham)
←  2008 Climax Series 2010  → 2009 CLCS                 2009 Japan Series

The 2009 Pacific League Climax Series (PLCS) consisted of two consecutive series, Stage 1 being a best-of-three series and Stage 2 being a best-of-six with the top seed being awarded a one-win advantage. The winner of the series advanced to the 2009 Japan Series, where they competed against the 2009 Central League Climax Series winner. The top three regular-season finishers played in the two series. The PLCS began on with the first game of Stage 1 on October 16 and ended with the final game of Stage 2 on October 24.

First stage

Summary

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles won the series, 2–0.

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 16	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 4, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 11	Kleenex Stadium	3:00	21,303 [1]
2	October 17	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 1, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 4	Kleenex Stadium	2:47	21,388 [2]

Game 1

Friday, October 16, 2009 at Nippon Paper Kleenex Stadium Miyagi in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
SoftBank	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	6	2
Rakuten	3	0	4	0	0	3	1	0	X	11	12	1
WP: Hisashi Iwakuma (1–0)   LP: Toshiya Sugiuchi (0–1) Home runs: SOF: None RAK: Yosuke Takasu (1), Fernando Seguignol (1), Toshiya Nakashima (1), Takeshi Yamasaki (1)

Game 2

Saturday, October 17, 2009 at Nippon Paper Kleenex Stadium Miyagi in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
SoftBank	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	7	0
Rakuten	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	X	4	8	1
WP: Masahiro Tanaka (1–0)   LP: Dennis Houlton (0–1) Home runs: SOF: None RAK: Takeshi Yamasaki (2)

Second stage

Summary

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters won the series, 4–1*.

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 21	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 8, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 9	Sapporo Dome	3:28	38,235 [3]
2	October 22	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 1, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 3	Sapporo Dome	3:19	32,713 [4]
3	October 23	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 3, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 2	Sapporo Dome	2:48	42,328 [5]
4	October 24	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 4, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 9	Sapporo Dome	3:43	42,328 [6]

* The Pacific League regular season champion is given a one-game advantage in the Second Stage.

Game 1

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaido

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Rakuten	0	1	0	2	0	0	3	0	2	8	12	0
Nippon-Ham	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	9	13	0
WP: Masanori Hayashi (1–0)   LP: Kazuo Fukumori (0–1) Home runs: RAK: Teppei Tsuchiya (1) NIP: Terrmel Sledge (1)

Game 2

Thursday, October 22, 2009 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaido

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Rakuten	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	10	1
Nippon-Ham	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	3	9	0
WP: Keisaku Itokazu (1–0)   LP: Hisashi Iwakuma (0–1)   Sv: Hisashi Takeda (1) Home runs: RAK: Fernando Seguignol (1) NIP: None

Game 3

Friday, October 23, 2009 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaido

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Rakuten	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	7	0
Nippon-Ham	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	6	0
WP: Masahiro Tanaka (1–0)   LP: Tomoya Yagi (0–1) Home runs: RAK: Naoto Watanabe (1) NIP: Shinji Takahashi (1)

Game 4

Saturday, October 24, 2009 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaido

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Rakuten	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	4	9	0
Nippon-Ham	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	3	X	9	14	0
WP: Shugo Fujii (1–0)   LP: Hiromichi Fujiwara (0–1) Home runs: RAK: None NIP: Hichori Morimoto (1), Terrmel Sledge (2)

References

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