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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]
2013 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | ||
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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 | |
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Pos | Team | G | W | L | T | Pct. | GB | Home | Road |
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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 |
Team | Buffaloes | Eagles | Fighters | Hawks | Lions | Marines | CL |
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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 |
Pos | Team | G | W | L | T | Pct. | GB | Home | Road |
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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 |
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]
Ballpark | City/Town | Prefecture |
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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 |
The Eagles defeated the Chiba Lotte Marines in the Climax Series, then defeated the Yomiuri Giants in the Japan Series.
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