2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season

2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
LeaguePacific League
BallparkKleenex Stadium Miyagi
Record65–76–3 (.461)
League place5th
Parent companyRakuten
PresidentToru Shimada
ManagerKatsuya Nomura
Average attendance15,959
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The 2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season was the fourth season of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles franchise. The Eagles played their home games at Miyagi Baseball Stadium in the city of Sendai as members of Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League. The team was led by Katsuya Nomura on his third season as team manager.

Rakuten did not qualify for the Climax Series, finishing the season in fifth place with a record of 65–76–3.

Regular season

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Standings

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Pacific League regular season standings
Pos Team
 Pld W L T GB PCT Home Away
1 Saitama Seibu Lions 144 76 64 4 — .542 44–27–1 32–37–3
2 Orix Buffaloes 144 75 68 1 5.5 .524 41–31–0 34–37–1
3 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 144 73 69 2 6 .514 41–30–1 32–39–1
4 Chiba Lotte Marines 144 73 70 1 7.5 .510 41–30–1 32–40–0
5 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 144 65 76 3 12.5 .462 37–34–1 28–42–2
6 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 144 64 77 3 13.5 .455 36–33–3 28–44–0
Source: [1]

Interleague

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Team
 Pld HW HL AW AL GB PCT
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 24 10 2 5 7 — .625
Hanshin Tigers 24 10 2 5 7 — .625
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 24 8 4 6 6 1 .583
Yomiuri Giants 24 9 3 5 7 1 .583
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 24 6 6 7 5 2 .542
Hiroshima Toyo Carp 24 6 6 7 5 2 .542
Chunichi Dragons 24 8 4 4 8 3 .500
Orix Buffaloes 24 6 6 5 7 4 .458
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 24 4 8 7 5 4 .458
Chiba Lotte Marines 24 6 6 4 8 5 .417
Saitama Seibu Lions 24 7 5 3 9 5 .417
Yokohama BayStars 24 5 7 1 11 9 .250
Updated to match(es) played on compute. Source: [2]
Rules for classification: Whenever multiple teams have same number of wins, the team having better standings in last year's interleague games will have advantage, thus Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks won the interleague title, despite Hanshin Tigers beating the Hawks 3 out of 4 games. A similar rule applies to other teams tied in wins.

Record vs. opponents

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2008 record vs. opponents[1]
Team Buffaloes Eagles Fighters Hawks Lions Marines CL
Buffaloes — 13–10–1 13–11 14–10 10–14 14–10 11–13
Eagles 10–13–1 — 13–10–1 12–12 10–14 7–16–1 13–11
Fighters 11–13 10–13–1 — 17–7 9–14–1 12–12 14–10
Hawks 10–14 12–12 7–17 — 10–11–3 10–14 15–9
Lions 14–10 14–10 14–9–1 11–10–3 — 13–11 10–14
Marines 10–14 16–7–1 12–12 14–10 11–13 — 10–14

Opening Day roster

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Thursday, March 20, 2008, at Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks[3]

Order Player Pos.
1 Naoto Watanabe SS
2 Teppei Tsuchiya CF
3 Daisuke Kusano 3B
4 José Fernández 1B
5 Takeshi Yamasaki DH
6 Rick Short LF
7 Koichi Isobe RF
8 Yosuke Takasu 2B
9 Akihito Fujii C
— Hisashi Iwakuma P

Game log

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2008 game log: 65–76–3 (Home: 37–34–1; Away: 28–42–2)
March: 4–4 (Home: 2–0; Away: 2–4)
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak
1 March 20 @ Hawks 3–4 Kume (1–0) Guzmán (0–1) — Yahoo Dome 35,722 0–1–0 L1
2 March 22 @ Hawks 4–5 (11) Nitkowski (1–0) Watanabe (0–1) — Yahoo Dome 31,014 0–2–0 L2
3 March 23 @ Hawks 0–4 Oba (1–0) Asai (0–1) — Yahoo Dome 31,660 0–3–0 L3
4 March 25 @ Buffaloes 4–5 Takagi (1–0) Ichiba (0–1) Kato (3) Kyocera Dome 34,911 0–4–0 L4
5 March 26 @ Buffaloes 11–0 Nagai (1–0) Mitsuhara (0–1) — Kyocera Dome 11,052 1–4–0 W1
6 March 27 @ Buffaloes 2–0 Iwakuma (1–0) Kaneko (1–1) — Kyocera Dome 23,547 2–4–0 W2
7 March 29 Fighters 7–2 Tanaka (1–0) Hoshino (0–1) — Kleenex Stadium 20,189 3–4–0 W3
8 March 30 Fighters 3–1 Asai (1–1) Glynn (0–2) Aoyama (1) Kleenex Stadium 19,518 4–4–0 W4
April: 13–10 (Home: 11–1; Away: 2–9)
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak
9 April 1 Marines 7–4 Koyama (1–0) Komiyama (0–2) Aoyama (2) Kleenex Stadium 10,927 5–4–0 W5
10 April 2 Marines 6–3 Nagai (2–0) Shimizu (0–2) Aoyama (3) Kleenex Stadium 14,285 6–4–0 W6
11 April 3 Marines 9–1 Iwakuma (2–0) Kubo (1–1) — Kleenex Stadium 15,018 7–4–0 W7
12 April 4 @ Lions 2–4 Hoashi (1–0) Lin (0–1) Graman (2) Shikishima Stadium 17,599 7–5–0 L1
13 April 5 @ Lions 2–4 Ishii (3–0) Tanaka (1–1) Onuma (1) Seibu Dome 23,902 7–6–0 L2
14 April 6 @ Lions 3–4 Kinney (2–1) Asai (1–2) Graman (3) Seibu Dome 18,213 7–7–0 L3
15 April 8 @ Fighters 7–8 Takeda (3–0) Lin (0–1) Nakamura (3) Sapporo Dome 20,257 7–8–0 L4
16 April 9 @ Fighters 2–4 Yoshikawa (1–2) Nagai (2–1) Nakamura (4) Sapporo Dome 19,044 7–9–0 L5
17 April 10 @ Fighters 0–1 Yu Darvish (3–0) Iwakuma (2–1) — Sapporo Dome 25,197 7–10–0 L6
18 April 11 Buffaloes 5–4 (10) Aoyama (1–0) Yamaguchi (1–1) — Kleenex Stadium 10,626 8–10–0 W1
19 April 12 Buffaloes 3–0 Tanaka (2–1) Kondo (2–1) — Kleenex Stadium 15,456 9–10–0 W2
20 April 13 Buffaloes 12–6 Asai (2–2) Kawagoe (1–2) — Kleenex Stadium 12,879 10–10–0 W3
21 April 15 @ Marines 6–7 Ono (1–0) Nagai (2–2) Ogino (4) Chiba Marine Stadium 17,336 10–11–0 L1
22 April 16 @ Marines 1–2 Shimizu (2–2) Guzmán (0–2) — Chiba Marine Stadium 16,853 10–12–0 L2
23 April 17 @ Marines 11–2 Iwakuma (3–1) Kubo (1–3) — Chiba Marine Stadium 9,211 11–12–0 W1
— April 19 Lions Postponed (rain) – Makeup date: October 4 Kleenex Stadium — — —
24 April 20 Lions 3–4 (10) Iwasaki (1–0) Aoyama (1–1) Graman (6) Kleenex Stadium 19,601 11–13–0 L1
25 April 22 Hawks 4–3 Asai (3–2) Powell (1–1) Aoyama (4) Kleenex Stadium 11,799 12–13–0 W1
26 April 23 Hawks 4–0 Nagai (3–2) Otonari (2–3) — Kleenex Stadium 12,353 13–13–0 W2
— April 24 Hawks Postponed (rain) – Makeup date: September 30 Kleenex Stadium — — —
27 April 25 Fighters 6–1 Iwakuma (4–1) Yoshikawa (1–4) — Kleenex Stadium 13,213 14–13–0 W3
28 April 26 Fighters 6–1 Guzmán (1–2) Fujii (1–2) — Kleenex Stadium 16,826 15–13–0 W4
29 April 27 Fighters 5–0 Tanaka (3–1) Glynn (1–4) — Kleenex Stadium 20,634 16–13–0 W5
30 April 29 @ Buffaloes 1–2 Yamaguchi (2–1) Asai (3–3) Kato (7) Kyocera Dome 18,571 16–14–0 L1
31 April 30 @ Buffaloes 5–4 Koyama (2–0) Yamaguchi (2–2) — Kyocera Dome 13,146 17–14–0 W1
May: 12–11 (Home: 7–6; Away: 5–5)
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak
32 May 1 @ Buffaloes 1–6 Komatsu (3–0) Ichiba (0–2) — Skymark Stadium 14,003 17–15–0 L1
33 May 2 @ Fighters 1–5 Tadano (1–0) Iwakuma (4–2) Nakamura (9) Sapporo Dome 41,124 17–16–0 L2
34 May 3 @ Fighters 5–12 Sakamoto (1–1) Kawagishi (0–1) — Sapporo Dome 40,083 17–17–0 L3
35 May 4 @ Fighters 7–1 Tanaka (4–1) Glynn (1–5) — Sapporo Dome 42,126 18–17–0 W1
36 May 5 Hawks 5–7 (11) Ogura (4–1) Koyama (2–1) Yanase (1) Kleenex Stadium 20,572 18–18–0 L1
37 May 6 Hawks 4–8 Otonari (3–4) Nagai (3–3) — Kleenex Stadium 20,885 18–19–0 L2
38 May 7 Hawks 9–7 Asai (4–3) Takeoka (0–1) Arime (1) Kleenex Stadium 10,667 19–19–0 W1
39 May 9 @ Marines 11–4 Iwakuma (5–2) Ono (2–2) — Chiba Marine Stadium 16,849 20–19–0 W2
— May 10 @ Marines Postponed (rain) – Makeup date: September 19 Chiba Marine Stadium — — —
40 May 11 @ Marines 1–6 Shimizu (4–3) Tanaka (4–2) — Chiba Marine Stadium 24,892 20–20–0 L1
41 May 13 Buffaloes 2–8 Kondo (3–4) Nagai (3–4) — Fukushima Azuma 7,041 20–21–0 L2
— May 14 Buffaloes Postponed (rain) – Makeup date: September 4 Kleenex Stadium — — —
42 May 15 Buffaloes 1–2 Komatsu (4–0) Asai (4–4) Kato (10) Kleenex Stadium 11,581 20–22–0 L3
43 May 16 Lions 8–2 Iwakuma (6–2) Kishi (4–2) — Kleenex Stadium 12,057 21–22–0 W1
44 May 17 Lions 3–2 (12) Kawagishi (1–1) Okamoto (0–1) — Kleenex Stadium 14,265 22–22–0 W2
45 May 18 Lions 3–7 Hsu (1–0) Tanaka (4–3) — Kleenex Stadium 20,253 22–23–0 L1
46 May 20 Dragons 6–1 Nagai (4–4) Ogasawara (4–3) — Kleenex Stadium 12,964 23–23–0 W1
47 May 21 Dragons 1–3 Yamamoto (3–0) Asai (4–5) Iwase (13) Kleenex Stadium 15,372 23–24–0 L1
48 May 23 BayStars 7–5 Iwakuma (7–2) Kobayashi (1–1) Koyama (1) Kleenex Stadium 14,091 24–24–0 W1
49 May 24 BayStars 2–1 Guzmán (2–2) Oyamada (1–2) Koyama (2) Kleenex Stadium 17,435 25–24–0 W2
50 May 25 @ Swallows 10–2 Tanaka (5–3) Kamada (0–1) — Meiji Jingu Stadium 22,491 26–24–0 W3
51 May 26 @ Swallows 5–4 Nagai (5–4) Rios (2–6) Koyama (3) Meiji Jingu Stadium 16,483 27–24–0 W4
52 May 28 @ Giants 1–6 Utsumi (3–3) Hasebe (0–1) — Tokyo Dome 43,132 27–25–0 L1
53 May 29 @ Giants 4–2 Asai (5–5) Greisinger (5–3) Koyama (4) Tokyo Dome 41,106 28–25–0 W1
54 May 31 Carp 8–3 Iwakuma (8–2) Takahashi (6–3) — Kleenex Stadium 14,393 29–25–0 W2
June
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak
July
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak
August
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak
September
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak
October
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak
Legend:        = Win        = Loss        = Tie        = Postponement
Bold = Eagles team member

Roster

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2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders Manager

Coaches

Player statistics

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Batting

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2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles batting statistics[4]
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB K AVG OBP SLG TB
Hideki Asai 30 9 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 .111 .111 .111 1
José Fernández 142 541 81 163 40 0 18 99 5 53 78 .301 .368 .475 257
Akihito Fujii 90 190 15 50 7 0 0 13 3 18 25 .263 .329 .300 57
Domingo Guzmán 23 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000 0
Kohei Hasebe 13 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 0
Ryo Hijirisawa 34 41 7 11 0 0 0 3 5 5 10 .268 .333 .268 11
Yosuke Hiraishi 6 13 2 3 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 .231 .333 .308 4
Suguru Ino 23 23 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 5 .087 .125 .087 2
Tadashi Ishimine 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 0
Koichi Isobe 46 124 6 29 2 0 0 12 2 12 16 .234 .300 .250 31
Hisashi Iwakuma 28 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 .000 .000 .000 0
Hiroshi Katayama 18 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 0
Kenshi Kawaguchi 63 94 7 19 2 1 1 9 0 12 18 .202 .306 .277 26
Kazuyoshi Kimura 9 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0
Daisuke Kusano 118 328 36 89 15 0 3 36 2 20 33 .271 .321 .345 113
Shintaro Masuda 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 0
Satoshi Nagai 28 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0
Masato Nakamura 49 144 15 42 6 3 1 12 6 12 14 .292 .346 .396 57
Toshiya Nakashima 81 178 27 56 10 1 5 25 1 21 28 .315 .397 .466 83
Jin Nakatani 4 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .500 .500 .500 1
Wataru Nishimura 9 17 1 2 1 0 0 3 0 1 6 .118 .167 .176 3
Shoji Ohiro 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 0
Yoshinori Okihara 14 33 2 8 1 0 0 0 0 1 9 .242 .265 .273 9
Fernando Seguignol† 39 136 24 44 7 0 13 40 0 14 40 .324 .408 .662 90
Motohiro Shima 85 196 20 45 13 0 0 19 4 16 40 .230 .288 .296 58
Tatsuya Shiokawa 82 43 18 7 1 1 0 1 5 4 11 .163 .234 .233 10
Rick Short 134 491 62 163 31 2 12 71 4 25 51 .332 .365 .477 234
Fumikazu Takanami 51 19 10 4 2 0 0 4 5 1 3 .211 .250 .316 6
Yosuke Takasu 123 383 44 108 20 1 4 45 6 29 38 .282 .338 .371 142
Masahiro Tanaka 25 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 0
Teppei Tsuchiya 124 422 52 114 29 6 5 56 5 42 52 .270 .345 .403 170
Kensuke Uchimura 47 152 21 44 5 0 0 13 9 6 21 .289 .327 .322 49
Naoto Watanabe 132 470 79 118 11 2 0 30 34 54 66 .251 .354 .283 133
Takeshi Yamasaki 142 510 63 141 21 0 26 80 1 73 118 .276 .372 .471 240
Katsumi Yamashita 33 78 13 20 3 0 1 9 0 6 19 .256 .318 .333 26
Takahiro Yamazaki 14 39 6 8 0 1 1 3 0 0 8 .205 .238 .333 13
Fuminori Yokogawa 55 140 13 32 3 0 4 15 2 11 37 .229 .285 .336 47
Yuji Yoshioka 12 16 0 5 1 0 0 1 0 1 7 .313 .353 .375 6
Total：38 players 1,937 4,880 627 1,329 232 18 94 604 101 439 777 .272 .340 .385 1,879
†Denotes player joined the team mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Eagles only.
‡Denotes player left the team mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Eagles only.
Bold/italics denotes best in the league[5]

Pitching

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2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles pitching statistics[4]
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER BB K
Koji Aoyama 3 8 3.89 41 6 4 78.2 86 39 34 26 61
Kanehisa Arime 2 2 2.05 66 0 2 44 33 10 10 17 45
Hideki Asai 9 11 4.38 29 23 0 148 165 81 72 60 122
Domingo Guzmán 2 7 3.87 23 16 0 102.1 99 47 44 34 65
Marcus Gwyn† 1 1 3.86 19 0 3 18.2 21 12 8 7 16
Kohei Hasebe 1 4 9.93 13 6 0 35.1 56 41 39 22 23
Yasuhiro Ichiba 0 3 9.77 12 8 0 31.1 49 38 34 21 27
Hisashi Iwakuma 21 4 1.87 28 28 0 201.2 161 48 42 36 159
Hiroshi Katayama 2 7 3.65 18 12 0 79 70 35 32 35 71
Tsuyoshi Kawagishi 4 3 1.94 54 0 3 55.2 49 14 12 20 47
Hisashi Kitani 0 3 4.12 22 5 1 39.1 40 18 18 13 24
Shinichiro Koyama 3 5 3.72 54 0 4 67.2 58 29 28 25 71
Lin Ying-chieh 0 2 5.23 5 1 0 10.1 10 7 6 5 3
Rui Makino‡ 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 1
Akira Matsumoto 0 0 5.93 21 0 0 27.1 41 19 18 11 16
Satoshi Nagai 6 7 4.68 27 15 0 117.1 121 68 61 47 111
Hisashi Ogura 0 0 9.39 8 0 0 7.2 11 8 8 1 10
Kenta Satake† 2 0 2.14 24 0 0 21 15 6 5 9 22
Hiroshi Sato 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 .1 1 0 0 0 0
Masahiro Tanaka 9 7 3.49 25 24 1 172.2 171 71 67 54 159
Koki Watanabe 0 2 9.45 14 0 0 6.2 9 7 7 7 3
Masaru Yoshizaki 0 0 4.80 17 0 0 15 15 8 8 6 8
Total：22 players 65 76 3.89 522 144 18 1,281 1,283 607 553 456 1,064
†Denotes player joined the team mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Eagles only.
‡Denotes player left the team mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Eagles only.
Bold/italics denotes best in the league[6]

Awards and honors

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Most Valuable Player Award[7]

Eiji Sawamura Award[8]

  • Hisashi Iwakuma

Nippon Life Monthly MVP Award[9]

Best Nine Award[10]

Golden Spirit Award[11]

  • Hisashi Iwakuma

All-Star Series selections[12]

  • Hisashi Iwakuma - pitcher
  • Masahiro Tanaka - pitcher
  • Rick Short - infielder
  • Takeshi Yamasaki - designated hitter

All-Star Series MVP[13]

  • Takeshi Yamasaki - Game 1

Nippon Life Award (Interleague play)[14]

  • Hisashi Iwakuma

Best Battery Award

JA Zen-Noh Go-Go Awards[15]

Good Catch Award (July)

Farm team

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Eastern League regular season standings[16]
Team G W L T Win% GB Home Away
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 96 55 34 7 .618 — 35–10–3 20–24–4
Yomiuri Giants 96 58 36 2 .617 — 29–15–1 29–21–1
Shonan Searex 96 50 43 3 .538 7 23–24–1 27–19–2
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 96 46 45 5 .505 10 24–21–3 22–24–2
Saitama Seibu Lions 96 42 51 3 .452 15 23–25–2 19–26–1
Chiba Lotte Marines 96 37 53 6 .411 18½ 21–24–3 16–29–3
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 96 33 61 2 .351 24½ 22–26–1 11–35–1

Nippon Professional Baseball draft

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2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Draft selections[17]
Round Name Position Affiliation Signed?
1 Hiromichi Fujiwara Pitcher NTT Nishi Nippon Yes
2 Taishi Nakagawa Infielder Sakuragaoka High School Yes
3 Ryohei Isaka Pitcher Nippon Steel Kashima Yes
4 Yusuke Inoue Pitcher Aoyama Gakuin University Yes
5 Yusuke Kusuki Outfielder Panasonic Yes
6 Wataru Karashima Pitcher Iizuka High School Yes
Development players
1 Jobu Morita Infielder Kagawa Olive Guyners Yes

References

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  17. ^ "東北楽天ゴールデンイーグルス 選択選手一覧" [Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Selected Player List]. Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
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