The 2009 Korea Professional Baseball season, officially known as CJ Magumagu Pro Baseball 2009 () for sponsorship reasons, was the 26th season in the history of Korea Professional Baseball, now known as KBO League.
The Kia Tigers won the regular season and the Korean Series.
Format
Season format Regular season: 133 games for each team Semiplayoff: regular-season 3rd place vs. regular-season 4th place – best of 5 Playoff: regular-season second place vs. semiplayoff winner – best of 5 Korean Series: regular-season first place vs. playoff winner – best of 7
Final standings Champion (1st place): Korean Series winner Runner-up (2nd place): Korean Series loser 3rd–8th place: sort by regular-season record except teams to play in the Korean Series
Pre-season Rank Team W L D Pct. GB 1 Lotte Giants11100.917- 2 LG Twins9300.7502.0 3 Doosan Bears8400.6673.0 4 Hanwha Eagles5700.4176.0 5 Kia Tigers5800.3856.5 6 SK Wyverns5900.3577.0 7 Nexen Heroes4800.3337.0 8 Samsung Lions31000.2318.5
Regular season Rank 2009시즌 팀 순위 . Accessed 2009-08-13. Archived 2009-08-15. Team G W D L Pct. GB 1 Kia Tigers 133 81 4 48 0.609 - 2 SK Wyverns 133 80 6 47 0.602 1 3 Doosan Bears 133 71 2 60 0.534 10 4 Lotte Giants 133 66 0 67 0.496 15 5 Samsung Lions 133 64 0 69 0.481 17 6 Nexen Heroes 133 60 1 72 0.451 21 7 LG Twins 133 54 4 75 0.406 27 8 Hanwha Eagles 133 46 3 84 0.341 35
Pennant Race WinnerKIA Tigers
Post-season
Semiplayoff Doosan Bears win the series, 3-1
GameScoreDateLocationAttendance1 Doosan Bears 2 - 7 Lotte Giants September 29Jamsil Baseball Stadium29,000 (Sellout)2 Doosan Bears 6 - 0 Lotte Giants September 30Jamsil Baseball Stadium29,000 (Sellout)3Lotte Giants 3 - 12 Doosan Bears October 2Sajik Baseball Stadium28,500 (Sellout)4Lotte Giants 5 - 9 Doosan Bears October 3Sajik Baseball Stadium28,500 (Sellout)
Playoff SK Wyverns win the series, 3-2
GameScoreDateLocationAttendance1 SK Wyverns 2 - 3 Doosan Bears October 7Munhak Baseball Stadium21,0782 SK Wyverns 1 - 4 Doosan Bears October 8Munhak Baseball Stadium20,6273Doosan Bears 1 - 3 SK Wyverns October 10Jamsil Baseball Stadium29,000 (Sellout)4Doosan Bears 3 - 8 SK Wyverns October 11Jamsil Baseball Stadium29,000 (Sellout)5SK Wyverns 14 - 3 Doosan Bears SK 14-3 두산 격파... 한국시리즈 진출 October 14Munhak Baseball Stadium27,800 (Sellout)
Korean Series
Kia Tigers win the series, 4-3 GameScoreDateLocationAttendance1 Kia Tigers 5 - 3 SK Wyverns October 16Moodeung Stadium13,400 (Sellout)2 Kia Tigers 2 - 1 SK Wyverns October 17Moodeung Stadium13,400 (Sellout)3 SK Wyverns 11 - 6 Kia Tigers October 19Munhak Baseball Stadium27,800 (Sellout)4 SK Wyverns 4 - 3 Kia Tigers October 20Munhak Baseball Stadium27,800 (Sellout)5 Kia Tigers 3 - 0 SK Wyverns October 22Jamsil Baseball Stadium29,000 (Sellout)6 SK Wyverns 3 - 2 Kia Tigers October 23Jamsil Baseball Stadium29,000 (sellout) Highest post-season revenue intake for one game [KS 잠실 6차전 매진... PS 1경기 최다수입 또 경신] 7 Kia Tigers 6 - 5 SK Wyverns October 24Jamsil Baseball Stadium29,000 (Sellout)
2009 Korean Series WinnerKia TigersTenth title
Final standings PlaceTeam1Kia Tigers2SK Wyverns3Doosan Bears4Lotte Giants5Samsung Lions6Nexen Heroes7LG Twins8Hanwha Eagles
Statistics
Teams statistics Final Team Team BA Team ERA Runs Scored Runs Allowed HRKia Tigers.2673.92706581156SK Wyverns.2853.67732550166Doosan Bears.2804.60722662120Lotte Giants.2774.75637669121Samsung Lions.2754.98685700146Nexen Heroes.2725.40683762153LG Twins.2785.42670763129Hanwha Eagles.2695.70657805164Total5,4925,4921,155
Personal statistics Hitters TOP Category Player Record AVG Park Yong-taik (LG Twins) 0.372 HR Kim Sang-hyun (Kia Tigers) 36 RBI Kim Sang-hyun (Kia Tigers) 127 R Jeong Keun-Woo (SK Wyverns)Hee-seop Choi (Kia Tigers) 98 H Hyun-soo Kim (Doosan Bears) 172 SB Lee Dae-Hyung (LG Twins) 64
Pitchers TOP Category Player Record W Yoon Sung-Hwan (Samsung Lions) Cho Jung-Hoon (Lotte Giants) Aquilino López (Kia Tigers) 14 ERA Kim Kwang-Hyun (SK Wyverns) 2.80 SO Ryu Hyun-Jin (Hanwha Eagles) 188 IP Aquilino López (Kia Tigers) 190 SV Jon Adkins (Lotte Giants) Lee Yong-Chan (Doosan Bears) 26 HLD Kwon Hyuk (Samsung Lions) 21
Foreign hitters Team Player Position In KBO since Batting Average Home runs RBI Notes Doosan Bears Matt Watson OF 2009 .184 2 6 Hanwha Eagles Víctor Díaz OF 2009 .266 15 39 Kia Tigers NONE N/A LG Twins Roberto Petagine 1B 2008 .332 26 100 Lotte Giants Karim García OF 2008 .266 29 84 Samsung Lions NONE N/A Seoul Heroes Cliff Brumbaugh OF 2003 .245 27 86 Doug Clark OF 2008 .290 24 90 SK Wyverns NONE N/A Team had 3 pitchers
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