2009 Korea Professional Baseball season
Introduction The '''2009 Korea Professional Baseball season''' was the 28th season in the history of the 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 Giants1110  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  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 Winner''''''KIA 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)5'''SK Wyverns''' 14 - 3 Doosan Bears  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)7 '''Kia Tigers''' 6 - 5 SK Wyverns  October 24Jamsil Baseball Stadium29,000 (Sellout)'''2009 Korean Series Winner''''''Kia Tigers''''''Tenth title'''
Final standings PlaceTeam''1''Kia Tigers''2''SK Wyverns''3''Doosan Bears''4''Lotte Giants''5''Samsung Lions''6''Nexen Heroes''7''LG Twins''8''Hanwha 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  Kim Hyun-Soo (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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