2025 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season

2025 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
2025 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
League	Pacific League
Ballpark	Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi
Record	13–11–0 (.542), ½ GB
League place	2nd
Parent company	Rakuten
President	Masayuki Morii
General manager	Kazuhisa Ishii
Manager	Hajime Miki

The 2025 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season is the 21st season of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles franchise. The Eagles play their home games at Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi in the city of Sendai as members of Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League. The team is led by Hajime Miki in his first season in his second stint as team manager, and his second season overall.

Regular season

Standings

2025 Pacific League regular season standings^[1]
Pos	Team	GTooltip Games played	W	L	T	Pct.	GBTooltip Games behind	Home	Road
1	Orix Buffaloes	25	13	10	2	.565	—	4–7–1	9–3–1
2	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	24	13	11	0	.542	½	5–8–0	8–3–0
3	Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	24	12	12	0	.500	1½	3–10–0	9–2–0

4	Chiba Lotte Marines	22	11	11	0	.500	1½	4–7–0	7–4–0
5	Saitama Seibu Lions	23	11	12	0	.478	2	5–6–0	6–6–0
6	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	24	9	13	2	.409	3½	2–8–1	7–5–1

Chihō ballparks

The Eagles will host six home games outside of Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi in 2025. Five will be played at chihō, or "countryside", ballparks in the remaining five prefectures that make up Japan's Tōhoku region: Fukushima, Aomori, Yamagata, and Akita Prefectures.^[2] A sixth will be played at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo.^[3]

2025 Rakuten Eagles *chihō* ballparks^[2]
Ballpark	City	Prefecture
Kitagin Ballpark	Morioka	Iwate Prefecture
York Kaiseizan Stadium	Kōriyama	Fukushima Prefecture
Kirayaka Stadium	Yamagata	Yamagata Prefecture
Haruka Yume Stadium	Hirosaki	Aomori Prefecture
Komachi Stadium	Akita	Akita Prefecture
Tokyo Dome	Bunkyō	Tokyo

Opening Day starting roster

Friday, March 28, 2025, vs. Orix Buffaloes^[4]

2025 Rakuten Eagles Opening Day starting roster^[4]
Order	Player	Position
1	Hiroto Kobukata	Second baseman
2	Rui Muneyama	Shortstop
3	Yuya Ogo	Right fielder
4	Ryosuke Tatsumi	Center fielder
5	Hideto Asamura	First baseman
6	Itsuki Murabayashi	Third baseman
7	Yukiya Itoh	Designated hitter
8	Hikaru Ohta	Catcher
9	Kazuki Tanaka	Left fielder
—	Takahisa Hayakawa	Starting pitcher

Game log

2025 game log: 13–11–0 (Home: 5–8–0; Away: 8–3–0)

March/April: 13–11–0 (Home: 5–8–0; Away: 8–3–0)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Stadium	Attendance	Record	Streak
1	March 28	@ Buffaloes	2–3	Machado (1–0)	S. Suzuki (0–1)	—	Kyocera Dome	36,079	0–1–0	L1
2	March 29	@ Buffaloes	5–4 (10)	Norimoto (1–0)	Yamada (0–1)	Uchi (1)	Kyocera Dome	32,121	1–1–0	W1
3	March 30	@ Buffaloes	1–6	Takashima (1–0)	Karashima (0–1)	—	Kyocera Dome	30,583	1–2–0	L1
—	April 1	Lions	Postponed (rain) – Makeup date: TBD				Rakuten Mobile Park	—	—	—
—	April 2	Lions	Postponed (rain) – Makeup date: TBD				Rakuten Mobile Park	—	—	—
4	April 3	Lions	4–1	Kishi (1–0)	Hada (0–1)	Norimoto (1)	Rakuten Mobile Park	23,114	2–2–0	W1
5	April 4	@ Marines	3–1	Hayakawa (1–0)	Tanaka (0–1)	Norimoto (2)	Zozo Marine Stadium	24,606	3–2–0	W2
6	April 5	@ Marines	0–1	Ojima (1–0)	Ehara (0–1)	Guerrero (1)	Zozo Marine Stadium	24,892	3–3–0	L1
7	April 6	@ Marines	5–0	Koja (1–0)	Voth (0–1)	—	Zozo Marine Stadium	26,375	4–3–0	W1
8	April 8	Fighters	2–5	Itoh (1–1)	Norimoto (1–1)	—	Rakuten Mobile Park	23,024	4–4–0	L1
9	April 9	Fighters	2–8	T. Katoh (1–0)	Karashima (0–2)	—	Rakuten Mobile Park	20,007	4–5–0	L2
10	April 10	Fighters	0–10	Kitayama (2–0)	Kishi (1–1)	—	Rakuten Mobile Park	20,722	4–6–0	L3
11	April 11	Buffaloes	1–4	D. Tajima (1–0)	Hayakawa (1–1)	Machado (4)	Rakuten Mobile Park	22,498	4–7–0	L4
12	April 12	Buffaloes	2–4	Kuri (2–0)	Matsui (0–1)	—	Rakuten Mobile Park	23,656	4–8–0	L5
13	April 13	Buffaloes	1–6	Miyagi (2–0)	Koja (1–1)	—	Rakuten Mobile Park	24,129	4–9–0	L6
14	April 15	@ Hawks	2–1 (10)	Norimoto (2–1)	Hernández (0–2)	S. Suzuki (1)	Mizuho PayPay Dome	30,162	5–9–0	W1
15	April 16	@ Hawks	6–2	Takinaka (1–0)	Uwasawa (1–1)	—	Mizuho PayPay Dome	30,232	6–9–0	W2
16	April 17	@ Hawks	4–3	Matsui (1–1)	Osuna (1–1)	Norimoto (3)	Mizuho PayPay Dome	30,521	7–9–0	W3
17	April 18	Marines	1–4	Voth (1–1)	Hayakawa (1–2)	Masuda (2)	Rakuten Mobile Park	22,667	7–10–0	L1
18	April 19	Marines	2–1	Nishigaki (1–0)	Ojima (1–2)	Norimoto (4)	Rakuten Mobile Park	24,931	8–10–0	W1
19	April 20	Marines	4–1	Koja (2–1)	Nishino (0–2)	Norimoto (5)	Rakuten Mobile Park	24,830	9–10–0	W2
20	April 22	@ Fighters	4–2	Konno (1–0)	Sugiura (1–1)	Fujihira (1)	Es Con Field	28,624	10–10–0	W3
21	April 23	@ Fighters	8–3	Takinaka (2–0)	Gu Lin (0–1)	—	Es Con Field	28,461	11–10–0	W4
22	April 25	Hawks	0–1	Arihara (1–3)	Norimoto (2–2)	Osuna (3)	Rakuten Mobile Park	23,693	11–11–0	L1
23	April 26	Hawks	6–3	Uchi (1–3)	Ohzeki (1–2)	Fujihira (2)	Rakuten Mobile Park	23,230	12–11–0	W1
24	April 27	Hawks	3–2 (11)	Norimoto (3–2)	Tsumori (1–1)	—	Rakuten Mobile Park	25,506	13–11–0	W2

May: 0–0–0 (Home: 0–0–0; Away: 0–0–0)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Stadium	Attendance	Record	Streak

June: 0–0–0 (Home: 0–0–0; Away: 0–0–0)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Stadium	Attendance	Record	Streak

July: 0–0–0 (Home: 0–0–0; Away: 0–0–0)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Stadium	Attendance	Record	Streak

August: 0–0–0 (Home: 0–0–0; Away: 0–0–0)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Stadium	Attendance	Record	Streak

September/October: 0–0–0 (Home: 0–0–0; Away: 0–0–0)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Stadium	Attendance	Record	Streak

Win | Loss | Tie | Postponement | = Interleague play
Bold = Eagles team member

Roster

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles roster view talk edit
First team		Second team
Pitchers 11 Takayuki Kishi 14 Takahiro Norimoto 17 Tatsuki Koja 19 Kōsei Shōji 26 Haruto Nakagomi 31 Shōta Watanabe 41 Ren Kajiya 45 Tomotaka Matsui 47 Masaru Fujii 49 Masaya Nishigaki 56 Sora Suzuki 57 Ryōta Takinaka 62 Naoto Nishiguchi 66 Ryuta Konno 69 Seiryū Uchi Catchers 2 Hikaru Ohta 44 Takaya Tanaka 65 Kengo Horiuchi	Infielders 0 Hiroto Kobukata 1 Rui Muneyama 3 Hideto Asamura 4 Toshiki Abe 6 Itsuki Murabayashi 7 Daichi Suzuki 23 Maikel Franco 39 Yukiya Itoh 48 Yoshiaki Watanabe 73 Kōtarō Komori Outfielders 25 Kazuki Tanaka 32 Daisuke Nakashima 51 Yūya Ogo Manager 88 Hajime Miki Coaches 98 Hiroshi Watanabe (Batting) 93 Taketoshi Gotō (Batting) 80 Takashi Ishii (Pitching) 91 Yūya Kubo (Pitching) 96 Masahiko Tanaka (Battery) 86 Tatsuya Shiokawa (Infield defense/base running) 99 Shinichi Kawana (Outfield defense/base running) 95 Ryōsuke Morioka (Batting/assistant fielding)	Pitchers 15 Spencer Howard 20 Nik Turley 21 Takahisa Hayakawa 22 Ryūji Komago 28 Tomohito Sakai 29 Kazuto Tokuyama 38 Hayato Yuge 40 Masahiro Ehara 43 Sung Chia-hao 46 Shōma Fujihira 52 Taisei Tsurusaki 53 Haruto Sakai 54 Naoki Hinata 58 Wataru Karashima 59 Katsutoshi Tai 61 Takuma Matsuda 64 Yūki Hayashi 67 Seiya Ōuchi 71 Daichi Shibata 72 Satoshi Miyamori 89 Miguel Yajure Catchers 55 Yūma Yasuda 70 Tsuyoshi Ishihara	Infielders 24 Fumiya Kurokawa 34 Tsuyoshi Yamasaki 42 Haruka Yamada 60 Rikai Waters 63 Daiki Irie 68 Takumi Aono 75 Yang Po-hsiang Outfielders 8 Ryōsuke Tatsumi 27 Takerō Okajima 35 Hiroaki Shimauchi 36 Tsubasa Yoshino 50 Atsuki Mutoh 78 Sōshi Yoshino 79 Ginji Maeda Manager 74 Naoto Watanabe Coaches 84 Yūhei (Batting) 76 Tatsuya Shimozono (Batting) 81 Kōji Aoyama (Pitching) 83 Satoshi Nagai (Pitching) 94 Kanehisa Arime (Pitching) 97 Takahiro Shimotsuma (Battery) 92 Nobuyuki Okumura (Infield defense/base running) 85 Akihisa Makida (Outfield defense/base running) 87 Yasunaga Makishi (General development) 90 Fumitoshi Takano (Development)
Development Players
017 Wang Yan-cheng (P) 022 Kei Mizukami (C) 030 Ryūya Taira (IF) 078 Kōnosuke Tatsumi (IF) 130 Kōsei Koga (P) 131 Sōtarō Nagata (IF) 132 Yuya Kishimoto (IF) 137 Yūto Egawa (C) 197 Shao Chi (P)
Updated May 5, 2025		→ All NPB rosters

References

^ "2025 Pacific League Standings". Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved April 1, 2025.
^ ^a ^b "東北各県開催試合を「東北楽天ゴールデンイーグルス東北シリーズ Supported by 大東建託」として実施!!" [Games held in each prefecture in Tohoku will be held as the "Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tohoku Series Supported by Daito Trust Construction"!!] (in Japanese). Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. January 31, 2025. Retrieved April 1, 2025.
^ "※情報更新※5/15(木)千葉ロッテ戦は東京ドームで「楽天スーパーナイター」を開催!" [*Information update* The Rakuten Super Night game will be held at Tokyo Dome on May 15th (Thu) against Chiba Lotte!] (in Japanese). Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. March 3, 2025. Retrieved April 1, 2025.
^ ^a ^b "Friday, March 28, 2025". Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved April 1, 2025.

[auto1-1] "2025 Pacific League Standings". Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved April 1, 2025.

[chiho-2] "東北各県開催試合を「東北楽天ゴールデンイーグルス東北シリーズ Supported by 大東建託」として実施!!" [Games held in each prefecture in Tohoku will be held as the "Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tohoku Series Supported by Daito Trust Construction"!!] (in Japanese). Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. January 31, 2025. Retrieved April 1, 2025.

[3] "※情報更新※5/15(木)千葉ロッテ戦は東京ドームで「楽天スーパーナイター」を開催!" [*Information update* The Rakuten Super Night game will be held at Tokyo Dome on May 15th (Thu) against Chiba Lotte!] (in Japanese). Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. March 3, 2025. Retrieved April 1, 2025.

[opening_day-4] "Friday, March 28, 2025". Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved April 1, 2025.

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