2013 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season

2013 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
2013 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
Japan Series champions
Pacific League champions
League	Pacific League
Ballpark	Nippon Paper Kleenex Stadium
Record	82–59–3 (.582), 7½ GA
League place	1st
Parent company	Rakuten
President	Yozo Tachibana
Manager	Senichi Hoshino
Captain	Kazuo Matsui
Average attendance	17,793

The 2013 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season was the 8th season of the franchise in Nippon Professional Baseball, also their 8th season under Rakuten, also their 8th season at then-named Nippon Paper Kleenex Stadium (now Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi), and also their 8th season in Sendai. The Eagles were managed by Senichi Hoshino in his 3rd season managing the Eagles. The Eagles won their first and only Pacific League pennant and their first and only Japan Series championship as of 2022.^[1]

Regular season

Standings

2013 Pacific League regular season standings^[2]
Pos	Team	GTooltip Games played	W	L	T	Pct.	GBTooltip Games behind	Home	Road
1	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles^†	144	82	59	3	.582	—	42–28–2	40–31–1
2	Saitama Seibu Lions*	144	74	66	4	.529	7½	42–29–1	32–37–3
3	Chiba Lotte Marines*	144	74	68	2	.521	8½	41–29–2	33–39–0

4	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	144	73	69	2	.514	9½	37–34–1	36–35–1
5	Orix Buffaloes	144	66	73	5	.475	15	32–38–2	34–35–3
6	Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	144	64	78	2	.451	18½	35–36–1	29–42–1

^† League champion and advanced directly to the final stage of the Climax Series
* Advanced to the first stage of the Climax Series

Record vs. opponents

2013 record vs. opponents^[2]
Team	Buffaloes	Eagles	Fighters	Hawks	Lions	Marines	CL
Buffaloes	—	7–16–1	11–12–1	14–10	10–13–1	11–12−1	13–10–1
Eagles	16–7–1	—	16–8	12–12	19–13–2	14–10	15–9
Fighters	12–11–1	8–16	—	12–12	9–15	10–14	13–10–1
Hawks	10–14	12–12	12–12	—	15–8–1	9–15	15–8–1
Lions	13–10–1	13–9–2	15–9	8–15–1	—	14–10	11–13
Marines	12–11−1	10–14	14–10	15–9	10–14	—	13–10−1

Interleague

2013 regular season interleague standings^[3]
Pos	Team	GTooltip Games played	W	L	T	Pct.	GBTooltip Games behind	Home	Road
1	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks^†	24	15	8	1	.652	—	8–4	7–4–1
2	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	24	15	9	1	.625	½	8–4	7–5
3	Yomiuri Giants	24	13	10	1	.565	2	7–4–1	6–6
4	Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	24	13	10	1	.565	2	8–3−1	5–7
5	Chiba Lotte Marines	24	13	10	1	.565	2	7–4−1	6–6
6	Orix Buffaloes	24	13	10	1	.565	2	7–5	6–5−1
7	Hanshin Tigers	24	12	11	1	.522	3	7–5	5–6–1
8	Hiroshima Toyo Carp	24	11	13	0	.458	4½	7–5	4–8
9	Saitama Seibu Lions	24	11	13	0	.458	4½	6–6	5–7
10	Chunichi Dragons	24	10	13	1	.435	5	7–4–1	3–9
11	Tokyo Yakult Swallows	24	7	16	1	.304	8	5–7	2–9–1
12	Yokohama DeNA Baystars	24	7	17	0	.292	8½	1–11	6–6

^† Interleague champion

Chihō ballparks

The Eagles hosted five home games outside of Nippon Paper Kleenex Stadium in 2013. Four were played at chihō, or "countryside", ballparks in Fukushima, Iwate, Yamagata, and Akita Prefectures in Japan's Tōhoku region and the fifth was played at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo.^[4]

2013 Rakuten Eagles *chihō* ballparks^[4]
Ballpark	City/Town	Prefecture
Iwate Prefectural Baseball Stadium	Morioka	Iwate Prefecture
Komachi Stadium	Akita	Akita Prefecture
Koriyama Kaiseizan Baseball Stadium	Kōriyama	Fukushima Prefecture
Shogin & Nissin Stadium	Nakayama	Yamagata Prefecture
Tokyo Dome	Bunkyō	Tokyo

Playoffs

The Eagles defeated the Chiba Lotte Marines in the Climax Series, then defeated the Yomiuri Giants in the Japan Series.

References

^ "Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles win 2013 NPB Championship". wbsc.org. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
^ ^a ^b "2013 Pacific League Standings". Retrieved January 28, 2025.
^ "2013年度交流戦" [2013 Interleague Play] (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved January 29, 2025.
^ ^a ^b "2024 パーソルパシフィック・リーグ公式戦試合開始時間発表" [2024 Persol Pacific League official match start times announced] (in Japanese). Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. January 18, 2024. Retrieved December 30, 2024.

[1] "Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles win 2013 NPB Championship". wbsc.org. Retrieved 2022-02-25.

[auto1-2] "2013 Pacific League Standings". Retrieved January 28, 2025.

[interleague_standings-3] "2013年度交流戦" [2013 Interleague Play] (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved January 29, 2025.

[chiho-4] "2024 パーソルパシフィック・リーグ公式戦試合開始時間発表" [2024 Persol Pacific League official match start times announced] (in Japanese). Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. January 18, 2024. Retrieved December 30, 2024.

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