2021 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | ||
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Climax Series berth | ||
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League | Pacific League | |
Ballpark | Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi | |
Record | 66–62–15 (.516) | |
League place | 3rd | |
Parent company | Rakuten | |
President | Yozo Tachibana | |
General manager | Kazuhisa Ishii | |
Manager | Kazuhisa Ishii | |
Captain | Eigoro Mogi | |
Average attendance | 8,545 | |
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The 2021 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season was the 17th season of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles franchise. The Eagles played their home games at Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi in the city of Sendai as members of Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League. The team was led by Kazuhisa Ishii in his first season as team manager.
Rakuten finished the season with a record of 66–62–15, securing third place in the PL and qualifying for the Climax Series. They were eliminated by the Chiba Lotte Marines in the First Stage in two games.
Rank | Team | G | W | L | T | Pct. | GB | Home | Road |
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1 | Orix Buffaloes | 143 | 70 | 55 | 18 | .560 | — | 38–22–12 | 32–33–6 |
2 | Chiba Lotte Marines | 143 | 67 | 57 | 19 | .540 | 2½ | 33–32–7 | 34–25–12 |
3 | Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | 143 | 66 | 62 | 15 | .514 | 5½ | 31–33–8 | 35–29–7 |
4 | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | 143 | 60 | 62 | 21 | .492 | 8½ | 31–29–11 | 29–33–10 |
5 | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | 143 | 55 | 68 | 20 | .447 | 14 | 25–36–10 | 30–32–10 |
6 | Saitama Seibu Lions | 143 | 55 | 70 | 18 | .440 | 15 | 30–34–7 | 25–36–11 |
Team | Buffaloes | Eagles | Fighters | Hawks | Lions | Marines | CL |
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Buffaloes | — | 10–10–5 | 10–11–4 | 13–11–1 | 15–8–2 | 10–10–5 | 12–5–1 |
Eagles | 10–10–5 | — | 12–11–2 | 11–10–4 | 15–8–2 | 9–15–1 | 9–8–1 |
Fighters | 11–10–4 | 11–12–2 | — | 6–13–6 | 13–9–3 | 7–13–5 | 7–11 |
Hawks | 11–13–1 | 10–11–4 | 13–6–6 | — | 9–13–3 | 12–10–3 | 5–9–4 |
Lions | 8–15–2 | 8–15–2 | 9–13–3 | 13–9–3 | — | 10–11–4 | 7–7–4 |
Marines | 10–10–5 | 15–9–1 | 13–7–5 | 10–12–3 | 11–10–4 | — | 8–9–1 |
Team | G | W | L | T | Win% | GB | Home | Away |
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Orix Buffaloes | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | .706 | — | 7–1–1 | 5–4 |
Hanshin Tigers | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | .611 | 1.5 | 3–6 | 8–1 |
Yokohama DeNA BayStars | 18 | 9 | 6 | 3 | .600 | 2 | 6–2–1 | 3–4–2 |
Chunichi Dragons | 18 | 9 | 7 | 2 | .563 | 2.5 | 5–2–2 | 4–5 |
Tokyo Yakult Swallows | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | .556 | 2.5 | 5–4 | 5–4 |
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | 18 | 9 | 8 | 1 | .529 | 3 | 3–5–1 | 6–3 |
Saitama Seibu Lions | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | .500 | 3.5 | 5–3–1 | 2–4–3 |
Chiba Lotte Marines | 18 | 8 | 9 | 1 | .471 | 4 | 5–4 | 3–5–1 |
Yomiuri Giants | 18 | 7 | 8 | 3 | .467 | 4 | 4–3–2 | 3–5–1 |
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | 18 | 7 | 11 | 0 | .389 | 5.5 | 2–7 | 5–4 |
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | 18 | 5 | 9 | 4 | .357 | 5.5 | 3–4–2 | 2–5–2 |
Hiroshima Toyo Carp | 18 | 3 | 12 | 3 | .200 | 8 | 2–6–1 | 1–6–2 |
Friday, March 26, 2021, vs. Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters [3]
Order | Player | Pos. |
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1 | Ryosuke Tatsumi | CF |
2 | Hiroto Kobukata | SS |
3 | Hiroaki Shimauchi | LF |
4 | Hideto Asamura | 2B |
5 | Eigoro Mogi | 3B |
6 | Daichi Suzuki | 1B |
7 | Kazuki Tanaka | RF |
8 | Yuya Ogo | DH |
9 | Hikaru Ohta | C |
— | Hideaki Wakui | P |
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March: 4–1 (Home: 2–1; Away: 2–0)
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April: 10–8–6 (Home: 5–4–4; Away: 5–4–2)
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May: 11–11–3 (Home: 5–3–2; Away: 6–8–1)
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June: 11–10–1 (Home: 5–8–1; Away: 6–2)
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July: 5–6–1 (Home: 1–2; Away: 4–4–1)
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August: 5–6–2 (Home: 1–4–1; Away: 4–2–1)
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September: 11–11–1 (Home: 7–4; Away: 4–7–1)
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October: 9–9–1 (Home: 5–7; Away: 4–2–1)
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Legend: = Win = Loss = Tie = Postponement Bold = Eagles team member |
2021 game log: 66–62–15 (Home: 31–33–8; Away: 35–29–7) |
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Legend: = Win = Loss = Tie = Postponement Bold = Lions team member |
Player | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | TB |
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Yuichi Adachi | 10 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .059 | .111 | .118 | 2 |
Ginji Akaminai | 35 | 91 | 5 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 11 | .286 | .381 | .297 | 27 |
Hideto Asamura | 143 | 483 | 70 | 130 | 18 | 1 | 18 | 67 | 1 | 101 | 96 | .269 | .395 | .422 | 204 |
Rusney Castillo | 33 | 71 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 17 | .225 | .276 | .282 | 20 |
Brandon Dixon | 38 | 108 | 6 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 2 | 12 | 42 | .167 | .268 | .324 | 35 |
Takahisa Hayakawa | 24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 |
Masaki Iwami | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .143 | .250 | .286 | 2 |
Takayuki Kishi | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 |
Hiroto Kobukata | 121 | 391 | 60 | 97 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 5 | 44 | 65 | .248 | .328 | .312 | 122 |
Fumiya Kurokawa | 34 | 75 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 17 | .187 | .228 | .253 | 19 |
Eigoro Mogi | 120 | 410 | 50 | 106 | 19 | 4 | 14 | 53 | 6 | 48 | 107 | .259 | .343 | .427 | 175 |
Itsuki Murabayashi | 79 | 40 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 | .150 | .191 | .250 | 10 |
Atsuki Mutoh | 44 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | .105 | .105 | .211 | 4 |
Takahiro Norimoto | 23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 |
Yuya Ogo | 38 | 77 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 23 | .182 | .259 | .325 | 25 |
Hikaru Ohta | 107 | 240 | 25 | 45 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 23 | 1 | 17 | 64 | .188 | .260 | .254 | 61 |
Takero Okajima | 126 | 461 | 40 | 129 | 30 | 4 | 8 | 56 | 3 | 28 | 94 | .280 | .331 | .414 | 191 |
Louis Okoye | 42 | 94 | 7 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 21 | .223 | .291 | .234 | 22 |
Hiroaki Shimauchi | 141 | 486 | 64 | 125 | 34 | 5 | 21 | 96 | 2 | 97 | 87 | .257 | .385 | .477 | 232 |
Takahiro Shimotsuma | 16 | 23 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | .174 | .296 | .174 | 4 |
Ko Shimozuru | 6 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .100 | .100 | .100 | 1 |
Takahiro Shiomi | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 |
Ginjiro Sumitani † | 51 | 105 | 11 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 24 | .219 | .272 | .333 | 35 |
Daichi Suzuki | 143 | 552 | 70 | 153 | 19 | 3 | 10 | 53 | 3 | 52 | 51 | .277 | .343 | .377 | 208 |
Ryota Takinaka | 20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 |
Kazuki Tanaka | 61 | 59 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 16 | .136 | .239 | .136 | 8 |
Masahiro Tanaka | 23 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1 |
Takaya Tanaka | 31 | 38 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | .263 | .317 | .474 | 18 |
Ryosuke Tatsumi | 130 | 374 | 49 | 84 | 13 | 1 | 10 | 32 | 6 | 51 | 99 | .225 | .326 | .345 | 129 |
Yasuhito Uchida | 25 | 54 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 19 | .204 | .220 | .296 | 16 |
Ren Wada | 7 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .250 | .333 | .250 | 2 |
Hideaki Wakui | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 |
Yoshiaki Watanabe | 45 | 99 | 12 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 19 | .273 | .351 | .323 | 32 |
Tsuyoshi Yamasaki | 56 | 168 | 29 | 43 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 4 | 15 | 41 | .256 | .326 | .399 | 67 |
Toshitake Yokoo | 30 | 61 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | .180 | .254 | .213 | 13 |
Total:35 players | 1,209 | 4,641 | 532 | 1,129 | 178 | 27 | 108 | 508 | 45 | 538 | 975 | .243 | .329 | .363 | 1,685 |
Player | W | L | ERA | G | GS | SV | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K |
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Tomohiro Anraku | 3 | 3 | 2.08 | 58 | 0 | 2 | 56.1 | 45 | 13 | 13 | 33 | 50 |
Alan Busenitz | 1 | 0 | 4.97 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 32 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 23 |
Yuya Fukui | 0 | 0 | 4.43 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 20.1 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 21 |
Hiroyuki Fukuyama | 0 | 2 | 2.38 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 22.2 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 13 |
Takahisa Hayakawa | 9 | 7 | 3.86 | 24 | 23 | 0 | 137.2 | 132 | 59 | 59 | 30 | 127 |
Ryota Ishibashi | 0 | 1 | 3.46 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
Yoshinao Kamata | 0 | 0 | 11.25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
Takayuki Kishi | 9 | 10 | 3.44 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 149 | 149 | 62 | 57 | 34 | 131 |
Kazuhisa Makita | 0 | 0 | 3.31 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 16.1 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 5 |
Yuki Matsui | 0 | 2 | 0.63 | 43 | 0 | 24 | 43 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 59 |
Kohei Morihara | 0 | 0 | 2.78 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 32.1 | 29 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 30 |
Naoto Nishiguchi | 5 | 2 | 3.28 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 57.2 | 46 | 23 | 21 | 23 | 55 |
Takahiro Norimoto | 11 | 5 | 3.17 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 144.2 | 123 | 56 | 51 | 35 | 152 |
Tomohito Sakai | 4 | 3 | 2.28 | 54 | 0 | 3 | 51.1 | 33 | 15 | 13 | 24 | 44 |
Takahiro Shiomi | 0 | 0 | 3.6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Shu Sugahara | 0 | 0 | 16.88 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Sung Chia-hao | 3 | 3 | 2.23 | 63 | 0 | 7 | 60.2 | 46 | 18 | 15 | 23 | 49 |
Sora Suzuki | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Koichi Takada | 0 | 0 | 1.35 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6.2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Hosei Takata | 0 | 1 | 9.39 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7.2 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 8 |
Ryota Takinaka | 10 | 5 | 3.21 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 103.2 | 97 | 40 | 37 | 27 | 75 |
Masahiro Tanaka | 4 | 9 | 3.01 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 155.2 | 131 | 54 | 52 | 29 | 126 |
Taisei Tsurusaki | 0 | 0 | 5.06 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 10.2 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 |
Takuma Uchima | 0 | 0 | 5.91 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 10.2 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 16 |
Hideaki Wakui | 6 | 8 | 5.04 | 21 | 17 | 0 | 96.1 | 110 | 57 | 54 | 26 | 76 |
Yuki Watanabe | 0 | 0 | 5.4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
Hayato Yuge | 1 | 1 | 7.24 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 13.2 | 20 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 6 |
Total:27 players | 66 | 62 | 3.40 | 566 | 143 | 36 | 1,260 | 1,146 | 507 | 476 | 383 | 1,098 |
Taiju Life Monthly MVP Award [13]
All-Star Series selections [14]
All-Star Series MVP [15]
Team | G | W | L | T | Win% | GB | Home | Away |
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Chiba Lotte Marines | 108 | 60 | 42 | 6 | .588 | — | 33–20–2 | 27–22–4 |
Yomiuri Giants | 116 | 56 | 57 | 3 | .496 | 9½ | 33–29 | 23–28–3 |
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | 114 | 54 | 55 | 5 | .4954 | 9½ | 28–27–3 | 26–28–2 |
Tokyo Yakult Swallows | 104 | 49 | 50 | 5 | .4949 | 9½ | 24–21–5 | 25–29 |
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | 108 | 49 | 51 | 8 | .490 | 10 | 31–19–2 | 18–32–6 |
Yokohama DeNA BayStars | 111 | 51 | 55 | 5 | .481 | 11 | 24–25–4 | 27–30–1 |
Saitama Seibu Lions | 107 | 48 | 53 | 6 | .475 | 11½ | 29–23–3 | 19–30–3 |
Round | Name | Position | Affiliation | Signed? |
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1 | Soshi Yoshino | Outfielder | Shohei High School | Yes |
2 | Yuma Yasuda | Catcher | Aichi University | Yes |
3 | Ginji Maeda | Infielder | Mishima Minami High School | Yes |
4 | Katsutoshi Tai | Pitcher | Kamimura Gakuen High School | Yes |
5 | Tomotaka Matsui | Pitcher | Kanazawa Gakuin University | Yes |
6 | Masaya Nishigaki | Pitcher | Waseda University | Yes |
7 | Yudai Yoshikawa | Pitcher | JFE West | Yes |
Development players | ||||
1 | Satoshi Miyamori | Pitcher | Kochi Fighting Dogs | Yes |
2 | Ozora Yanagisawa | Outfield | Nihon University Fujisawa High School | Yes |
3 | Sho Okawara | Outfielder | Tokai University Yamagata High School | Yes |
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