Twat is an English-language vulgarism which means the vulva or vagina, and is used figuratively as a derogatory epithet. In British English, it is a common insult referring to an obnoxious or stupid person regardless of gender; in American English, it is rarer and usually used to insult a woman. In Britain, the usual pronunciation rhymes with "hat", while Americans most often use the older pronunciation that rhymes with "squat". This is reflected in the former variant spelling of "twot".

The literal sense is first attested in 1656, the epithet in the 1930s. The word's etymology is uncertain. The American Heritage Dictionary suggests a conjectural Old English word "thwāt", meaning "a cut", cognate with the Old Norse "þveit" ("thveit"). Jonathon Green suggests a connection with "twitchel", a dialect term for a narrow passage.  The twentieth-century British slang verb twat, meaning 'to hit, whack', is probably an unrelated homonym of onomatopoeic origin.

Historical use

Robert Browning famously misused the term in his 1841 poem "Pippa Passes":

Many years later, Frederick J. Furnivall wrote to ask Browning what he meant by twat; Browning replied that as a youth he had encountered the word in a volume of broadsides and inferred it to be an item of nun's clothing akin to a wimple. The relevant lines are from Vanity of Vanities, a 1660 attack on Henry Vane the Younger which includes an anti-Catholic joke:

Melissa Mohr suggests few Victorians knew the word, given that "none of the twenty-three or so Victorian editions" of Browning's poem omit it.  An 1868 query to Notes and Queries asked what the word in the poem meant; the only published reply was, "Twat is good Somersetshire dialect for a toad=twoad=twat". A footnote in William James Rolfe and Heloise Hersey's 1886 Select Poems of Robert Browning summarised his reply to Furnivall with the additional comment, "Twat is in no dictionary"; H. W. Fay noted in 1888 in The Academy that the word was in fact in Thomas Wright's 1857 Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, and said Browning, Furnivall and Rolfe had all made a "distressing blunder". The 1894 reprint of Select Poems replaced the comment with "Browning would not have used the word if he had known its meaning". In 1911 Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve alluded to "a notorious word which smirches the skirt of Pippa Passes".

Browning's error posed a dilemma for many pre-1960s lexicographers, who excluded words deemed obscene but aspired to include all words used by major writers like Browning. The 1890 Century Dictionary included the correct definition, labelled "vulgar", and noted Browning's "supposition" of its meaning. In 1934 Webster's Second New International Dictionary entry for twat read: "Some part of a nun's garb. Erron. Browning". The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) included many taboo words, albeit often with circumscribed definition and quotations, and twat was duly included in the relevant OED fascicle, published in 1916. The entry labelled it "low" and obsolete and noted Browning's "erroneous" use. There was no direct definition, but rather "See quot. 1727", a reference to the latest of the entry's five historical citations, namely the definition in the 1727 Universal Etymological English Dictionary, which was in Neo-Latin:  ("female private part"). Two of the other OED citations included quotes: Vanity of Vanities and a c. 1704 bawdy verse with a variant spelling: "At last, as groping thro' a dang'rous Street, / Where Stones and Twaits in frosty Winters meet".
The two unquoted citations were a 1656 translation of Martial's Epigrams and a 1719 bawdy song by Thomas d'Urfey. In 1986 the Supplement to the OED deleted the "obsolete" label and added twentieth-century quotations and the figurative insult as a second sense.

Besides Thomas Wright's 1857 dialect dictionary (" ") the word also appears in Joseph Wright's 1892 Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill ("twot ") but not in the latter's 1905 English Dialect Dictionary. The 1950s  Survey of English Dialects recorded the word at several sites as the term for a cow's vulva.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1870 science fiction novel The Coming Race, uses it to mean tadpole in an apparent satire on Darwin:

Modern use
In 1979, British punk poet John Cooper Clarke included the poem "Twat" on his album Walking Back to Happiness. It has been described, by Nick Duerden of The Independent, as "memorable".

In August 2008, Random House, the publisher of the children's book My Sister Jodie by Jacqueline Wilson, decided after receiving three complaints to reprint the word twat as twit in future editions of the novel so as not to offend readers or their parents.

In a 2009 breakfast radio interview with Christian O'Connell, British Conservative Party leader and future Prime Minister David Cameron quipped that "the trouble with Twitter, the instantness of it—too many twits might make a twat". O'Connell said Cameron did not realise the word could cause offense until Gabrielle Bertin advised him to issue an apology.

In his 2011 book Filthy English, linguist Peter Silverton asked, "Can you distinguish an utter twat from a complete prick? I think you can. An utter twat knows not what he or she does. A complete prick does."

Workers who go to the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays and work remotely from home on Mondays and Fridays have been irreverently called "TWaTs". Although the term predated the COVID-19 lockdowns it has become more prevalent since, as more people partially return to offices.

Sensitivity
For the purposes of film certification, usage of the word is not considered as serious as many other swear words.  It is listed by the British Board of Film Classification as an example of "moderate language" for the 12 certificate.  However, the film Kes originally released in 1969 and given a 'U' certificate by the then British Board of Film Censors, denoting suitable for children, has in later years been re-certified PG in the United Kingdom, meaning: "All ages admitted, but certain scenes may be unsuitable for young children. Should not disturb children aged 8 years or over", despite more than one instance of the word.  The word also appears in writing in an episode of Fawlty Towers (the letters on the sign have been rearranged to say "Flowery Twats").  The episode has a 12 certificate.

It also is not on the list of the seven dirty words by George Carlin in his 1972 monologue "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", perhaps because the word is much less common in North America than in Britain, although it was used as a term of insult in Mel Brooks' comedy western Blazing Saddles (1974).

Unlike many other swear words, it is included in Google's auto-complete function.

In 2023 the UK Advertising Standards Authority rejected two complaints about an ad in The Sunday Times for the comedy show "Dawn French is a Huge Twat", commenting,  "the use of the word would be understood by readers to be self-deprecating and tongue-in-cheek, and it was not, for example, used in a sexual context".

See also

 Cunt
 Twatt, Orkney
 Twatt, Shetland

References

English profanity
Pejorative terms for women
American and British English differences


The Bison was an improvised fighting vehicle frequently characterised as a mobile pillbox. Bisons were produced in Britain during the invasion crisis of 1940-1941. Based on a number of different lorry chassis, it featured a fighting compartment protected by a layer of concrete. Bisons were used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) to protect aerodromes and by the Home Guard. They acquired the generic name "Bison" from their main manufacturer.

Need
With the Fall of France in July 1940, the British Government made efforts to prepare for the threatened invasion. One problem was the defence of airfields against airborne troops.

An ideal solution for protecting the open space of an airfield was to use tanks and armoured cars. However, the British Army lacked heavy equipment having abandoned much of it during the evacuation of Dunkirk. An alternative was needed which would not compete for resources with conventional armaments.

Inception

The Bison was the invention of Charles Bernard Mathews who was a director of Concrete Limited. At this time, there were many attempts to improvise armoured vehicles, but Mathews had the resources and experience to take a professional approach.

Mathews and his commercial partner John Goldwell Ambrose had been in the Royal Engineers and had a history of wartime innovation with concrete including pre-cast pillboxes and dugouts during the First World War. One of Mathews' more unusual ideas, with which he experimented in early 1939, was to stack piles of football-sized concrete spheres on top of air-raid shelters, with the intention that a bomb would expend its energy in scattering aside the heavy spheres rather than breaking the shelter.

Mathews bought twenty-four old lorry chassis on which to base the vehicles and he made up a prototype to show to local military authorities. Helpful criticism was forthcoming and Mathews was able to produce a version which met the requirements of the army. The vehicles were essentially mobile pillboxes. Mathews said: "[mobile] Concrete pill-boxes will never take the place of armoured cars and tanks, but the enemy would find them a serious obstacle. Their great attraction is that anybody can make them – once he knows how".

Mathews' company trademark then (and the company name today) was a Bison, a name which became a generic label for any of these vehicles.

Concrete Limited obtained chassis where they could. Many were old and some dated from the First World War period, one had even seen service as a fire engine and some had not even been converted from solid to pneumatic tyres. With a variety of chassis to work on, Bisons inevitably varied in detail, but were made in three distinct types:
 Type 1 was the lightest. It had a fully armoured cab and a small armoured fighting compartment roofed with canvas.
 Type 2 had an armoured cab roofed with canvas and a separate fully enclosed fighting compartment resembling a small pillbox on the back – communication between driver and crew must have been difficult.
 Type 3 was the largest and heaviest. It had a contiguous cabin and fighting compartment completely enclosed in concrete armour.

Production
Steel was a valuable wartime resource so concrete was favoured for armouring these pillbox vehicles. Any available lorry chassis was used, although the weight of the concrete meant that only the heaviest of chassis were suitable.

Lorries arrived at Concrete Limited's Stourton Works in Leeds, where the original metal bodywork was removed and wooden shuttering formers constructed. Within the formers, three sheets of expanded metal were placed as reinforcement and then fast setting, high strength concrete made with  high alumina cement was poured in. Characteristic ridges at the gaps between the boards are a noticeable feature.

When a roof was provided, this was constructed from pre-cast concrete. The walls were about  thick and were found to stand up well to Bren gun and armour-piercing bullets.

It is not clear how many Bisons were produced; estimates vary between two and three hundred. Due to the resilience of concrete some traces of the Bison remain today whereas nothing at all is left of the more readily recycled Armadillo.

The existence of these mobile pillboxes received significant publicity at the time. They were briefly detailed in The Times and at greater length in Commercial Motor magazine.

Role
These were emphatically not "armoured cars", but merely a pillbox that could be moved from place to place. It was claimed to travel "at normal lorry speed" but in practice it was mainly restricted to the flatness of airfields. Most had difficulty moving at all owing to their excess weight, poor visibility and reduced radiator cooling. Some broke down completely and were either towed, or abandoned in place. Those built on steam wagon chassis coped well with the extra weight once boilers were removed, but were no longer powered.

Despite concrete's poor performance as armour against heavy weapons, they would have been quite adequate to defend against the lightly armed German paratroops who were the anticipated attackers at airfields. Driven, or towed, to a defensive position they could cover the open space of an airfield where enemy paratroops or transport aeroplanes might attempt a landing. When the airfield was needed for friendly aircraft, a Bison could be moved out of the way so that they would not be a danger to aircraft movements.

Extant examples

The Tank Museum

A complete type 2 Bison, reconstructed from extant parts and a period lorry chassis, can be seen at The Tank Museum, Bovington. This example is a Thornycroft Tartar 3 ton, 6×4 of 1931 or later. The chassis here was a military forward-control Tartar used as a 3-ton general service lorry; military Tartars had one wheel on each side of the rear axles, civilian models had twin wheels — two wheels on each side.

Access to the rear pillbox is through a hatch cut into the lorry decking. The cab armour is open-topped and was accessed by climbing over. Early examples used a single rectangular box over both sections, but separate sloping-walled boxes saved weight. Some examples were built with unarmoured cabs which emphasises their limited mobility – they had to be deployed before any attack. Although attempts were often made to protect the engine and vulnerable radiator, this one has merely a light steel plate over half the radiator and the steering box is still exposed.

In period it is unlikely that a relatively modern military lorry would have been sacrificed in this way, being too valuable to replace losses after Dunkirk. The museum's Bison was built relatively recently, from an original rear pillbox on a different original chassis, with the front cab section being a modern reproduction by the Museum of Army Transport in Beverley. The suspension of this example rests on axle stands to avoid flattening the tyres.

Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre
This Bison had been used by the Home Guard to defend RAF Digby. Later in the war, Digby was downgraded and hence the additional airfield protection was not required. It was for a while stored at Ferrybridge, Yorkshire and it was  used to defend a roadblock on the A15 just outside Sleaford. Towards the end of the war it was abandoned in a copse to the side of the A15 near Quarington Lane end. The ensuing years saw it stripped and vandalised until eventually the chassis was converted for use as a farm trailer. In 1988, the Lincolnshire Aircraft Recovery Group learned of its existence of these remains and research revealed what it really was.

On 22 March 1991 the remains of the Bison were taken to the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre; they still retain traces of camouflage paint, and one of the sections has its original wooden shuttering.

See also
 Armadillo armoured fighting vehicle
 Bedford OXA
 Standard Beaverette
 British hardened field defences of World War II

References

Footnotes

Notes

General references

External links

Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre - Official site.

World War II armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom
Concrete vehicles
Military vehicles introduced from 1940 to 1944
Improvised armoured fighting vehicles
Improvised combat vehicles


"Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" is the sixth episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 16, 2008. In the episode, Lisa discovers that she has a talent for solving crossword puzzles, and she enters a crossword tournament. Lisa's feelings are hurt when she discovers that Homer bet against her in the championship match.

The episode was inspired by Patrick Creadon's 2006 documentary Wordplay, and was written by Tim Long, and directed by Nancy Kruse. Crossword puzzle creators Merl Reagle and Will Shortz guest star as themselves in the episode while Scott Thompson has a cameo as Grady, a character he first voiced in "Three Gays of the Condo". Reagle created all of the crossword puzzles that appear in the episode and as a promotion for the episode, a special Simpsons-related message (dedicated to this episode) that appeared in The New York Times Sunday crossword on November 16, 2008.

The episode received generally positive reviews from critics, and finished fourth in its timeslot during its initial airing on Fox, with a 3.9 Nielsen rating.

Plot
Bart and Lisa start a lemonade stand, but it is quickly closed due to their not having a vending permit. They get in line at the licensing bureau, only to find that the long line is standing still due to the clerk doing a crossword puzzle. Impatient, Lisa completes the puzzle herself, only to find herself addicted to the puzzles. The scene is a shot-for-shot adaptation of the Al Sanders scene in Wordplay. Eventually, she becomes so obsessed with them that Superintendent Chalmers hands her a pamphlet for the Crossword City Tournament. Meanwhile, at Moe's, Edna Krabappel offers to buy a beer for anyone who breaks up with Principal Skinner for her. Homer ends their relationship and decides to take a second job in which he helps break up romantic relationships. Grady, one of his old roommates, calls Homer and asks him to break up Grady's and his boyfriend's relationship because he found a new and "better" man in Duffman. Homer successfully manages to break up the couple. After making a good deal of money, he dreams that he is pestered by the "ghosts" of the jilted lovers and thus quits the trade.

At the crossword tournament, Homer bets his money from his breakup business on Lisa and wins big. However, upon hearing Lisa saying that she is wary of the final round, he bets on the other finalist, Gil Gunderson. Gil plays Lisa for her sympathy and cons her into losing the round, which in turn lets Homer win his final bet. Upon realizing that Homer has come into some money by betting against her in the tournament, Lisa gets angry at him and refuses to acknowledge herself as Homer's daughter, even going so far as to take Marge's maiden name and start calling herself "Lisa Bouvier". Feeling guilty, Homer commissions Merl Reagle and Will Shortz to create a special puzzle for the New York Times, with his apology to Lisa hidden in the clues and solution. The two of them make up.

Production
The episode was written by Tim Long, and directed by Nancy Kruse. James L. Brooks got the inspiration for the episode from the 2006 documentary Wordplay which chronicles the national crossword puzzle championships, and he thought that Lisa should go to a championship in the episode. Will Shortz and Merl Reagle, who both starred in the documentary, appear in the episode. "We felt both Will and Merl were very compelling, off-the-beaten-track personalities [in Wordplay], who would fit into our universe very well", Brooks said.

Shortz was the first guest star the producers of The Simpsons approached. Long later asked Reagle to make puzzles for the episode. Reagle recorded his lines in a studio near his home. Reagle told the Arizona Daily Wildcat that "for me, to be such a total nut for animation since I was a kid, I never even dreamed [of being in a cartoon]. It's like a dream I never had coming true." He added that "you don't see [the crosswords] in the episode for very long, but when crossword fans watch this show, we want them to think that we got it right." Reagle designed every puzzle that appears in the episode, including one that appears in a hopscotch court in Lisa's daydream. There were certain lines in the script that had to be incorporated into Reagle's puzzles, including one where Gil says, "I think I'll throw some Q's around", and he enters a number of Q's onto the grid. Reagle, therefore, had to create a puzzle which used words that included the letter Q more frequently than would be usual. Reagle said he saw the early script of the episode, "but they change it right up to the last minute. In a lot of ways, I'll be seeing it for the first time right along with everyone else." Scott Thompson has a cameo in the episode as Grady, a character that he first voiced in the season 14 episode "Three Gays of the Condo".

The episode features three musical montages: the sequence of Homer helping couples to break up features "Farewell to You, Baby" by Carl Martin, Homer's gambling on Lisa's puzzle solving is set to "Word Up!" by Cameo and "Fanfare for the Common Man" plays in the background of the montage of words removed from the dictionary.

Promotion
In order to promote this episode, guest stars Reagle and Shortz collaborated with the episodes' writer Tim Long to create a hidden Simpsons-related message (dedicated to this episode) that appeared in The New York Times Sunday crossword on November 16, 2008. The crossword, which was titled "Sounds Like Somebody I Know", also appears as a plot point in the episode. Harry Shearer recorded a clip of Mr. Burns and Smithers telling the winner of the National Public Radio's Sundays Puzzle on November 16, 2008, what they had won.

Reception
On the night it aired, the episode was watched by 8.5 million  viewers and had a 3.9 Nielsen rating, finishing fourth in its timeslot. The episode did finish first in the 18–34 demographic with a 4.7 Nielsen rating and a 13 share of the audience, narrowly beating an episode of 60 Minutes featuring Barack Obama in the demographic.

Tim Long was nominated for Writers Guild of America Award in the animation category for writing the episode.

The episode received generally positive reviews from critics.

Robert Canning of IGN did not think there was anything "terrible" about the episode, but he did not think there was anything to get excited about, either. Canning thought there were a number of throwaway jokes in the episode that he felt worked well, "but the episode as a whole failed to grab me. As stated, there are a number of episodes that already fit this mold, and most of those are far superior."

Daniel Aughey of TV Guide thought the episode provided a "healthy balance" of humor, story and heart. "Exactly what makes a great Simpsons episode!" Aughey would have liked to see Homer's storyline explored as an A story in its own episode rather than cut short as a C story.

Erich Asperschlager of TV Verdict thought the puzzle-solving storyline was "a lot of fun", both for its references to the "highly entertaining" documentary Wordplay and the jokes it inspired. He thought the one problem with the final part of the storyline was that it took away from what could have been "one of the best Lisa-centric episodes in a long time. Marrying her bookish sensibilities with cruciverbal skills is an inspired idea. They should have done more with it. At the very least, it would have left more screentime for Will Shortz and Merl Reagle."

References

External links

 The solved NYT Sunday Crossword of Nov 11, 2008 as featured in this episode, complete with hidden messages in the puzzle and clues.

The Simpsons (season 20) episodes
2008 American television episodes
Crosswords


Julie Van Dusen is a Canadian journalist who works for CBC News and hosts the CPAC Today in Politics podcast. She is also a panelist on CBC Radio Ottawa's All in a Day.

Van Dusen graduated with a degree in French literature and studied communications at  the University of Ottawa. Van Dusen comes from a family of journalists; five of her siblings, including Peter Van Dusen and her father, Thomas Van Dusen, are also reporters. After graduating from university, she began working for the Privy Council Office then as a researcher for FP News Service and Maclean's magazine as a reporter and researcher for the Parliament Hill bureau. Van Dusen began working for the CBC in 1983 at CBC Ottawa. She became a CBC Television news reporter in 1988.

Controversy
On June 29, 2017, Van Dusen attended a press conference held by a group of family members of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). Van Dusen questioned speakers about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s work with the Indigenous community and one activist responded by referencing one of the many unsolved deaths of young Indigenous teenagers in Thunder Bay, Van Dusen asked, "but how can he be blamed for that? You don’t think that anything he’s doing is helping the situation? Is he an improvement over Stephen Harper? Talk about his record." In response, the Indigenous activists addressed Van Dusen as "white lady", and ordered her to leave the room. When CTV journalist Glen McGregor followed up with a similar question, the activists told him "You're a guest here. Without us you'd be homeless" and cancelled the press conference, walking out of the room. CBC political commentator Martin Patriquin described it as "Racism, sexism, and a press conference gone horribly wrong.".

Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau issued a statement that same day stating, "We recognize that over the past decades, generations, indeed centuries, Canada has failed Indigenous Peoples." The fallout from this event was occurring simultaneously with one in Canada's north where the "British media weren’t impressed when Prince Charles and his wife Camilla had trouble controlling their laughter during a traditional throat singing ceremony in Iqaluit"

References

External links
 CBC.ca biography

Canadian television reporters and correspondents
Journalists from Ontario
Mass media people from Ottawa
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian women television journalists
Canadian people of Dutch descent


William Douglas Lansford (July 13, 1922 in Los Angeles – May 22, 2013) was an American author, screenwriter, and film producer.

Biography
Born to a Scots Irish and English father and a Mexican mother, Lansford was raised in an ethnically Mexican neighborhood in East Los Angeles.  He had virtually no contact with his father, a Los Angeles policeman until he was 14.

He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1940 and served with the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in Iceland, the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on Guadalcanal, and Bougainville where he was promoted to sergeant  and in the 5th Marine Division on Iwo Jima.

Following the war, Lansford attended college under the G.I. Bill and worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News.

In 1946, Lansford married actress Jean Brooks; the marriage lasted 10 years. They were divorced in 1956 and Lansford remarried to Ruth Ketcham of Long Island, New York.

During the Korean War he was commissioned as a U.S. Army officer where he became a captain whose duties included being a radio writer with the Armed Forces Radio Service, a Public Information Officer, and a company commander. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his frontline coverage of the battle of Paik Ma San, the first battle in which the ROK army was victorious.

Lansford began writing over 300 short stories and articles for American magazines the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Argosy, True, and other Men's adventure magazines, Leatherneck Magazine, Stars and Stripes and many others. He wrote several non-fiction books such as the biographies Stranger than Fiction: The Real Life Adventures of Jack London (1958) and Pancho Villa (1965).  The latter was filmed as Villa Rides in 1968 with Lansford doing an early draft of the screenplay.

Lansford wrote many teleplays for American television series such as Four Star Playhouse, Wagon Train, Bonanza, The Rookies, Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.  He also wrote the screenplays for made for TV movies depicting Jesse James (The Intruders) and Charles Whitman (The Deadly Tower).  He produced, directed, and wrote the film Adios East Los

Lansford also appeared in the documentary series The War.

Lansford died on May 22, 2013, at his Playa del Rey home. The cause was complications of prostate cancer.

References

External links

W. Douglas Lansford magazine articles

1922 births
2013 deaths
United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II
United States Army personnel of the Korean War
United States Marine Corps non-commissioned officers
American television writers
Screenwriters from Los Angeles
American male screenwriters
War writers
Marine Raiders
American war correspondents
American male television writers
American male non-fiction writers
United States Army officers


Uncial 0120 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1005 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 9th-century. Vaya lokosñ

Description

The codex contains a small parts of the Acts of the Apostles 16:30-17:17; 17:27-29,31-34; 18:8-26, on six parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page, in uncial letters. The letters are leaned into right.
It has breathings and accents; errors of itacism occurs (υ and ι, η and ει, ο and ω, αι and ε). It contains the  (titles) at the top of the pages.

It is a palimpsest, the upper text is a menaeon (see Uncial 094, Uncial 0133).

The Greek text of this codex is a mixture of the text-types. Aland placed it in Category III.

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 9th-century.

Five leaves of this codex were published by Giuseppe Cozza in 1877 at Rome, the 6th leaf was published by Gregory in 1909 at Leipzig.

The codex now is located in the Vatican Library (Gr. 2302) in Rome.

See also

 List of New Testament uncials
 Textual criticism

References

Further reading

 Joseph Cozza, Sacrorum bibliorum vetustissima fragmenta Graeca et Latina e codicibus Cryptoferratensibus eruta III (Rome, 1877), pp. CXXI-CXXXIV.
 C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, (Leipzig, 1909), vol. III, pp. 1078–1079.

External links
 R. Waltz, Uncial 0120 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism

Greek New Testament uncials
Palimpsests
9th-century biblical manuscripts
Manuscripts of the Vatican Library


Bobkov () is a Russian surname that has been borne by, among others:

 Igor Bobkov (b. 1991), ice hockey player
 Nikolai Bobkov (b. 1940), footballer
 Philipp Bobkov (1925–2019), KGB official
 Sergey Bobkov (b. 1961), mathematician

Russian-language surnames


The Social Democratic Party of Saarland (, abbreviated SPS) was a political party existing between 1946 and 1956 in the Saar Protectorate. It had a short-lived predecessor, the Social Democratic Regional Party of the Saar Territory (, abbreviated SPdS) existing between 1933 and 1935 in the Saar Territory.

Before its foundation
In 1872 the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) for the first time gathered a meeting in a city of the Saar Basin, in St. Johann (now a locality of Saarbrücken) in order to gain supporters starting local party activities. However, the SPD was less successful in the industrial region of the Saar Basin, usually called the Saar Coal District () than in other industrialised areas of the German Empire. This was due to the dominance of the coal and steel industry in the Saar Coal District which showed strong paternalistic features, providing its workers better life conditions than in other branches which again played a more important role in other industrial regions of Germany. Another feature was the strong conservatism among many Saar Basin inhabitants, with Catholic voters often rather clinging to the Centre Party or voters of declared Protestant alignment, a minority in the Saar Basin, voting for the National Liberal Party.

So it took until 1893 that an agitation committee (Agitationskomitee) was founded in Saarbrücken in order to tour the Trier Region spreading SPD ideas and encouraging the foundation of local organisations in that region, of which the Prussian part of the Saar Basin formed part until 1920. In 1898 the Saar Coal District election association (Wahlverein Saarrevier) was founded to support SPD candidates running for the Reichstag. In 1903 the joint agitation committee for the Reichstag constituencies Trier Region No. 4 (with Saarlouis, Merzig, Saarburg in the Rhineland) and No. 5 (Saarbrücken; No. 4 and 5 mostly covering the Prussian Saar Coal District), Palatinate No. 4 (with Zweibrücken, Pirmasens, covering the southwest of that Bavarian Region) and Alsace-Lorraine No. 12 (with Saargemünd, Forbach in Lorraine, covering the northeast of the Department of Lorraine) was formed, seated in Saarbrücken.

In the Reichstag election of 1912 the SPD gained 13% of the votes in the city of Saarbrücken, the second lowest result for the SPD among all the German cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. In 1917 the SPD split into the more radical Independent Social Democrats (USPD) and the more moderate Majority Social Democrats (MSPD), reuniting in 1922. The Social Democrats in the Saar Territory then formed the SPD, Unterbezirk Saar, one of the lower-ranking regional subdivisions within the reunited party (Unterbezirk, i.e. subdistrict).

After the separation of the Territory of the Saar Basin (Saar Territory) from Germany in 1920 and the takeover of all the coal and steel industry by the French government in order to exploit reparations the antagonism between capitalists and workers, formerly less developed in the Saar Coal District with its many paternalistic entrepreneurs, turned into a matter conceived as a nationalist issue, simplified as French government agents exploiting German workers. Nationalist opinions heated up.

In the Saar Territory there was no home-rule by the citizens but a government, the Governing Commission (, Reko) appointed by the League of Nations. The Reko consisted of five members, none elected by the people, but one appointed by France, one by Germany, who had to be a native from the Saar Territory, and three other nationals appointed by the League of Nations. The members of the Governing Commission served one year terms.
The Governing Commission decided on all legislation autonomously. According to paragraph 23 of the Versailles Treaty the Governing Commission was to establish an assembly of elected representatives of the inhabitants of the Saar Territory in such a manner as the Governing Commission would determine itself. So on 24 March 1922, after four years without any official representation of the people, the Reko decreed the formation of a Saar Territory assembly called the Regional Council (). In June 1922 the Governing Commission held the first election of the Regional Council, and starting with the second election of the Regional Council the legislation period was extended from three to four years, with elections in 1928, and in 1932.

The Regional Council counted 30 members, the Governing Commission deliberately determined one person as the chairperson, the president of the Regional Council (Landesratspräsident). In the first legislation period the Reko did not even chose the president from the midst of the Regional Council. The assembly was no parliament, but only consultative, the representatives were only to be heard, but had no say in legislation. The agenda of matters to be debated was exclusively set up by the Governing Commission. The members of the Regional Council had neither the right of interpellation, nor the right to actively bring a subject to the agenda, let alone they were entitled to table a bill. Its members did not enjoy immunity. So in case the Governing Commission did not set an issue on the Regional Council's agenda it could only send delegations to the League of Nations with pleads, and so the Regional Council did. In the Regional Council the SPD had five (1922, 1928), six (1924) and three seats (1932), with over the years altogether nine different Social Democratic representatives being once or more often elected.

With this situation being as it was also the Social Democrats joined the so-called pro-German block in the Regional Council opposing the autocratic rule by the Governing Commission. The SPD demanded the return of the Saar Territory to Germany in order to let the Saar people live in a country allowing the people to elect a parliament and its government in self-determination.

In Nazi Germany, with many Social Democrats already arrested, hiding, exiled or even killed since the Nazi takeover, the SPD was officially outlawed on 22 June 1933, as were the trade unions and all kinds of workers organisations in the fields of education, culture, sports and the like more. Those members of the SPD Reich executive, still not arrested, not yet exiled and able to flee arrived in the Saar Territory right after the ban of the party in Germany. As an organisation based in the Saar Territory the Unterbezirk Saar was not subject to the party ban in Germany and the SPD Reich executive and the SPD Saar regional executive held consultations on the situation and what to do. Whereas the majority of the Reich executive abstained from and rejected any cooperation of the SPD with parties like the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which was no less in favour of a dictatorship than the Nazis, the Saar executive felt like forming a cooperation with the Communists, who had long been fighting the Weimar democracy and the SPD as its supporters, denouncing Social Democrats as social fascists.

After the Nazi takeover in Germany the Social Democrats and the Communists in the Saar Territory, with both their central party organisations in Germany destroyed and many of their fellow party comrades jailed or even murdered, quitted the joint opposition by the parties in the Regional Council against the autocratic government system in the Saar Territory. The Social Democrats yet upheld their demand for democracy, but with Germany having transformed into a dictatorship the status quo in the Saar Territory happened to be the minor evil.

The communists with their own ideas on the dictatorship of the proletariat, also feared a return of the Saar Territory to a Nazi-ruled Germany. SPD and KPD in the Saar Territory now campaigned for continuing the status quo, with the SPD hoping for a reestablishment of a democratic Germany, and the communists wishing a Soviet Germany. However, the other parties in the Regional Council further supported the return of the Saar Territory as soon as possible even though also their party organisations within Nazi Germany had been forbidden, or dissolved anticipating that, and party members were deposed from offices, banned from the public or arrested.

By a cooperation with the communists the Unterbezirk Saar executive wanted to combine all willing powers in order to win votes in the upcoming referendum against an immediate return to Germany, but for a continuation of the status quo. Of course the SPD Reich executive was also clearly for upholding the status quo, but against campaigning with the communists. After some days in the Saar Territory the SPD Reich executive moved on to Prague where the SPD Reich executive, adopting its exile name SoPaDe, could stay until the powers concluding the Munich Agreement decided the break-up of Czechoslovakia in October 1938.

1933 to 1935: Social Democratic Regional Party of the Saar Territory
On 12 November 1933 the Unterbezirk Saar of the SPD held its party convention in Saarbrücken, approved by the SoPaDe and attended by its representatives and delegates of the Socialist International. At this convention the Unterbezirk Saar, in dissent with the SoPaDe on the cooperation with the communists, assumed independence from the SPD and reconstituted as an independent party, the Social Democratic Regional Party of the Saar Territory (; SPdS, sometimes also abbreviated as SLS).

On 2 July 1934 the SPdS and the Saar Communists started their cooperation. Whereas the referendum was originally planned to offer the electorate only a choice between the Saar Territory returning to Germany or being annexed to France, the supporters of maintaining the status quo prompted the Governing Commission to add this as a third option to the ballot papers. In 1935 the SPdS and the Saar branch of the KPD formed a united front. On behalf of the SPdS, the declaration of the front, issued on January 29, 1935, was signed by Max Braun, since 1928 head of the Unterbezirk Saar and then the SPdS, respectively. Emil Kirschmann was the party secretary of SPdS.

1935 to 1945: Suppression and refoundation as the SPD Saar
However, in the 1935 Saar status referendum the inhabitants of the Saar Territory voted by a majority for the reunification of the Saar Territory with Germany. Subsequently, the SPdS was outlawed, many of its followers, especially those known for having officiated in party functions, fled the Saar Territory between the referendum and the Nazi takeover. More than 40 Social Democrats from the Saar Territory were killed by the Nazi regime.

In Völklingen the first local SPD organisation was refounded in summer 1945. Max Braun, the exiled last president of the SPdS prepared his return to the Saar Basin, but died in London in July. In October 1945, the Saar Basin was under French occupation since July, the Social Democratic district organisation refounded after 10 years of suppression in the rear meeting room of a Saarbrücken restaurant. Its original name then was Social Democratic Party of Germany, Saar district (SPD, Bezirk Saar), adopting the SPD naming of the highest ranking regional subdivisions (Bezirk, i.e. district).

1946 to 1956: Social Democratic Party of Saarland
However, the French occupation authority, preparing the separation of the Saar Area from Allied-occupied Germany insisted on removing the term Germany and the party was renamed as Social Democratic Party, Saar district, in order to get it registered in January 1946. This official separation from the SPD, however, was not followed by adopting its own Saar party platform.

Nevertheless, in practice the leaders of the Social Democratic Party of Saarland condoned and soon backed the French policy of economically integrating the Saar Area with France, whereas politically the Social Democrats strived for the Saar's autonomy. Within the party, however, there were three groupings with different opinions, those demanding a full annexation of the Saar to France, those condemning this attitude as separatism and promoting the reunification with Germany, and thirdly those wanting an autonomous Saar.

At the Saar Landtag elections in 1947 (32.8%), in 1952 (32.4%), the SPS never surpassed the results of the Christian People's Party of Saarland (CVP, with 51.2% in 1947, and 54.7% in 1952), and thus - as the junior partner - joined a coalition with it under Johannes Hoffmann from 1947 to April 1951 with two ministers, Richard Kirn for the department of labour and welfare and Heinz Braun for the justice department. In Hoffmann's second cabinet there were no SPS ministers, but Braun and Kirn rejoined his third cabinet officiating from 23 December 1952 to 17 July 1954. Then the coalition of CVP and SPS fell because of the conflict over the law on forming employees' works councils.

As to the Saar question, the SPS leaders maintained their position, cherishing the idea of a co-operative Europe, and campaigned for the Saar statute in the 1955 Saar referendum. This, of course, was subject to criticism from some within the party, which led to long-lasting and embittered controversies among the party members. A first attempt of the pro-German faction within the SPS, led by Ernst Roth, to win the party for their opinion, led to the total isolation of Roth, who was finally forced to resign as a member of the party's executive.  A second attempt in 1951 led by Kurt Conrad gained enough support so that Conrad ran as a candidate for the party chairmanship against Kirn, and another pro-German candidate ran for the deputy chairmanship. These attempts failed, but Kirn was only re-elected against the opposition of a visible minority. Although the pro-German faction was growing, Kirn initiated a procedure to exclude Conrad from the party. Before this could happen he resigned from the party.

On 14 March 1952 some disaffected members of the SPS applied to register a new political party, the German Social Democratic Party (DSP), which had been unofficially formed as an SPS intra-party group in 1947, but the authorities refused to allow the registration. In July 1955, the banning of so-called pro-German parties was lifted and the DSP then stepped into the daylight.

The Saar electorate reacted to these developments in the December 1955 elections by giving a disappointing 5.8% share in the vote for the SPS. The DSP, on the other hand, won 14.3%. As a consequence the SPS then decided to merge with the DSP with effect from 18 March 1956, then forming the Landesverband Saar (Saar state association) of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The Saar Protectorate was transformed into the state of Saarland within West Germany on the occasion of the Little Reunification of Germany on 1 January 1957.

References

Political parties in Saar
Saar
Political parties established in 1933
Political parties disestablished in 1935
Political parties established in 1946
Political parties disestablished in 1956


Dali L. Yang is an American political scientist and sinologist. He is the William Claude Reavis Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Advisor to the President and Provost on Global Initiatives at The University of Chicago. Between 2010 and 2016, he was the founding Faculty Director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, a university-wide initiative to strengthen exchanges and collaboration with Chinese academic institutions. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is a member of the Committee of 100, a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and a member of the China Committee of the Chicago Sister Cities International Program.  He is also on the Advisory Board of the Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago.

Education
Yang was educated in China and the United States. At age 19, he earned a bachelor of engineering from the University of Science and Technology, Beijing in 1983. He taught English in the foreign languages department of his alma mater briefly before coming to the United States. He then switched to political science, earning a master's degree from Portland State University in 1988 and his doctorate in Politics from Princeton University in January 1993.

Academic career
Since 1992, Yang has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He became an associate professor in 1999, and a full professor in 2004. From 2004 to 2007, he served as Chairman of the department. From 1999 to 2002 and from 2003 to 2004, he was director of the Committee on International Relations. He served as director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago from 2008 to 2010 and is the founding Faculty Director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing. He also directed the Confucius Institute at the University of Chicago, an initiative to enhance support for faculty and student research on China.

Yang has held visiting appointments at a number of Chinese universities and at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. He was director and professor of that Institute from 2007 to 2008.

Great Chinese Famine and the causes of post-Mao reforms
Yang is the author of a number of books that have made a difference in our understanding of China. His earliest book, Calamity and Reform in China was one of the first scholarly books on the Great Leap Famine, the worst famine in human history. It shows the era of Mao Zedong went to the radical extremism of the Great Leap Forward and how the Maoist excesses were self-destructive and contributed to the post-Mao reforms in rural China. The book was known for its innovative quantitative analysis on the political and economic causes of the Great Leap Famine at the end of the 1950s and early 1960s. It then revealed the patterns and severity of the Famine in the Chinese provinces were linked to the subsequent rural reforms in the 1960s and in the post-Mao reform era.

Yang's study of the political causes of the Great Leap Famine has stimulated much interest in follow-up studies. Yang and his co-authors returned to the debate in 2014 with a dissection of a study that purported to explain the political radicalism of provincial leaders.

Competitive liberalization and limits of Chinese-style federalism
Yang is also the author of Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China. This book highlights the politicization of regional policy but argued the severe regional disparities in China could not be easily corrected by the Chinese government. Yang also advanced a theory of "competitive liberalization" to explain how competition among the multitude of local governments helped accelerate some of China's reforms.

However, Yang has parted company with scholars who believed China has evolved into some sort of Federalism, Chinese Style  that has played a market-preserving function. In an article in the Annual Review of Political Science and in a paper presented at the Ronald Coase Conference on China's Economic Transformation, Yang has argued one could not use the Market-Preserving Federalism model to explain China's rapid development.

China's governance reforms
While the proponents of the Chinese-style Federalism theory have been wary of the role of China's central government, Yang has focused much of his energy examining China's governance reforms and the transformation of the Chinese state in a volume edited with Barry Naughton and in his own Remaking the Chinese Leviathan. These studies have allowed Yang to analyze "how China’s leaders have reformed existing institutions and constructed new ones to cope with unruly markets, curb corrupt practices, and bring about a regulated economic order." According to Yang, "the Chinese leadership's emphasis has so far been on order rather than democratic ideals, technocratic control rather than popular participation (except at the grassroots level), governability rather than regime type." The book offers one of the few academic studies of how China made the Chinese People's Liberation Army and other state institutions divest of their business empire. It also made Yang one of the earliest to predict the Chinese leadership was turning around China's once moribund state banking system. These developments meant China was better able to weather the Great Recession that struck in the developed economies in 2008-2009.

How China responded to and coped with the Great Recession is the subject of The Global Recession and China's Political Economy (Yang ed., 2012). Yang and his co-author pay special attention to the phenomenon of "the state sector advances and the private sector retreats" or 国进民退 and discuss how local authorities have invoked central government directives to promote industrial consolidation at the expense of private enterprises.

Development of the Chinese regulatory state
Yang has in recent years paid attention to the development of China's regulatory system and studied a number of regulatory institutions ranging from sports doping, to drug manufacturing, and food safety. He dissected the tragic failures associated with the State Food and Drug Administration, which ended in the execution of Zheng Xiaoyu, its former commissioner, in 2007. Together with Waikeung Tam, he discussed, in 2005, how China's fragmented regulatory structure contributed to a major baby formula scandal  The incidence of the Sanlu milk scandal, which resulted in at least four babies dead and more than 50,000 hospitalized, lent further evidence to their analysis. A recent working paper, The Politics of Blood Safety Regulation in China, is on how the scandalous blood plasma economy in Henan and elsewhere prompted the health authorities to develop a blood safety regulatory regime.

China and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yang has been frequently quoted in the media in analyses of China's responses to the Covid-19 outbreak/epidemic in Wuhan/Hubei. He highlighted how preoccupation with stability maintenance by the authorities in Wuhan/Hubei contributed to the explosive spread of SARS-CoV-2. Before Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, he said in an interview with the South China Morning Post that the COVID-19 epidemic "will be a crisis of Chernobyl proportions, especially because we will have to contend with the virus for years to come. Those who have sustained losses, in particular, will be asking questions, as has happened before in the aftermath of a crisis." He explained that General Secretary and President Xi Jinping would mobilize all resources to fight the war on the coronavirus in China. He wrote subsequently on "The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Estrangement of US-China Relations." He is known to have written a book manuscript on the themes of "Cognition, Information, and the Politics of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Wuhan, China." He has also published on China's Zero-Covid campaign.

Books
 Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control . Oxford University Press, 2024.
 Co-author, China and Youth Well-being in China. Routledge, 2019.
 Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China. Stanford University Press. 2004/2006.
 Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China. Routledge, 1997.
 Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society and Institutional Change since the Great Leap Famine. Stanford University Press, 1996.
 The Global Recession and China's Political Economy (edited). Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
 China's Reforms at Thirty: Challenges and Prospects (ed. with Zhao Litao). World Scientific, 2009.
 Discontented Miracle: Growth, Conflict and Institutional Adaptations in China(edited). World Scientific, 2007.
 Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era , ed. with Barry Naughton. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

References

External links
 University of Chicago biography
 Dali L. Yang website

1964 births
American academics of Chinese descent
American political scientists
American sinologists
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Living people
Members of Committee of 100
Portland State University alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of Chicago faculty


The 2009 Atlanta Braves season was the 44th season in Atlanta and the 139th overall. The Braves were once again skippered by Bobby Cox, then in his 24th season managing the team. It was the Braves' 44th season in Atlanta, and the 138th season overall for the franchise.

Preseason transactions

Notable free agent acquisitions

Notable Players lost to free agency

Source: Baseball-Reference.com 2009 Atlanta Braves Trades and Transactions

Pre-season trades

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Game log

|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 1 || April 5 || @ Phillies || 4–1 || Lowe (1–0) || Myers (0–1) || || 2:22 || 44,532|| 1–0
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 2 || April 7 || @ Phillies || 4–0 || Jurrjens (1–0) || Moyer (0–1) || || 2:36 || 44,178|| 2–0
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 3 || April 8 || @ Phillies || 11–12 || Condrey (1–0) || Boyer (0–1) || Lidge (1) || 3:13 || 44,939|| 2–1
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 4 || April 10 || Nationals || 6–5 || Campillo (1–0) || Beimel (0–1) || || 3:58 || 48,327|| 3–1
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 5 || April 11 || Nationals || 5–3 || Kawakami (1–0) || Lannan (0–2) || González (1) || 2:33 || 34,325|| 4–1
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 6 || April 12 || Nationals || 8–5 || Jurrjens (2–0) || Olsen (0–2) || Soriano (1) || 2:47 || 19,873|| 5–1
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 7 || April 14 || Marlins || 1–5 || Volstad (2–0) || Vázquez (0–1) || || 2:31 || 16,293|| 5–2
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 8 || April 15 || Marlins || 4–10 || Penn (1–0) || Moylan (0–1) || || 3:07 || 19,204|| 5–3
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 9 || April 16 || Marlins || 2–6 || Sánchez (1–0) || Kawakami (1–1) || || 2:49 || 21,072|| 5–4
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 10 || April 17 || @ Pirates || 0–3 || Maholm (2–0) || Jurrjens (2–1) || Capps (3) || 2:36 || 15,659|| 5–5
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 11 || April 18 || @ Pirates || 0–10 || Snell (1–2) || Reyes (0–1) || || 2:22 || 20,755|| 5–6
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 12 || April 19 || @ Pirates || 11–1 || Vázquez (1–1) || Duke (2–1) || || 2:48 || 14,776|| 6–6
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 13 || April 20 || @ Nationals || 2–3 || Zimmermann (1–0) || Lowe (1–1) || Hanrahan (1) || 2:24 || 12,473|| 6–7
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 14 || April 21 || @ Nationals || 3–4 || Martis (2–0) || Kawakami (1–2) || Hanrahan (2) || 2:47 || 15,439|| 6–8
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 15 || April 22 || @ Nationals || 1–0 || González (1–0) || Mock (0–1) || Soriano (2) || 2:30 || 15,567|| 7–8
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 16 || April 24 || @ Reds || 4–3 || Vázquez (2–1) || Vólquez (2–2) || González (2) || 3:30 || 30,060|| 8–8
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 17 || April 25 || @ Reds || 10–2 || Lowe (2–1) || Arroyo (3–1) || || 2:38 || 33,015|| 9–8
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 18 || April 26 || @ Reds || 2–8 || Owings (1–2) || Kawakami (1–3) || || 2:36 || 29,327|| 9–9
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 19 || April 27 || Cardinals || 2–3 || Piñeiro (4–0) || Jurrjens (2–2) || Franklin (6) || 2:46 || 16,739|| 9–10
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 20 || April 28 || Cardinals || 2–1 || Moylan (1–1) || McClellan (1–1) || González (3) || 2:23 || 18,121|| 10–10
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 21 || April 29 || Cardinals || 3–5 || Wainwright (3–0) || Vázquez (2–2) || Franklin (7) || 2:49 || 19,127|| 10–11

|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 22 || May 1 || Astros || 7–2 || Lowe (3–1) || Hampton (1–2) || || 2:47 || 29,309|| 11–11
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 23 || May 2 || Astros || 1–5 || Byrdak (1–0) || Carlyle (0–1) || || 2:48 || 28,203|| 11–12
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 24 || May 3 || Astros || 5–7 || Geary (1–3) || Moylan (1–2) || Hawkins (3) || 3:18 || 27,921|| 11–13
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 25 || May 4 || Mets || 4–6 || Maine (2–2) || Vázquez (2–3) || Rodríguez (6) || 2:42 || 19,132|| 11–14
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 26 || May 5 || Mets || 3–4 || Hernández (2–1) || Kawakami (1–4) || Rodríguez (7) || 3:13 || 21,049|| 11–15
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 27 || May 6 || @ Marlins || 8–6 || Lowe (4–1) || Taylor (0–2) || González (4) || 3:09 || 12,725|| 12–15
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 28 || May 7 || @ Marlins || 4–2 || Jurrjens (3–2) || Sánchez (1–4) || González (5) || 2:46 || 17,759|| 13–15
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 29 || May 8 || @ Phillies || 6–10 || Hamels (1–2) || Reyes (0–2) || || 2:29 || 45,312|| 13–16
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 30 || May 9 || @ Phillies || 6–2 || Vázquez (3–3) || Blanton (1–3) || || 2:29 || 45,339|| 14–16
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 31 || May 10 || @ Phillies || 4–2 || Kawakami (2–4) || Taschner (1–1) || Soriano (3) || 2:50 || 45,343|| 15–16
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 32 || May 11 || @ Mets || 8–3 || Lowe (5–1) || Santana (4–2) || || 3:04 || 40,497|| 16–16
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 33 || May 12 || @ Mets || 3–4 || Rodríguez (1–0) || Bennett (0–1) || || 3:02 || 39,408|| 16–17
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 34 || May 13 || @ Mets || 8–7 || Bennett (1–1) || Takahashi (0–1) || González (6) || 3:46 || 40,555|| 17–17
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 35 || May 15 || Diamondbacks || 4–3 || González (2–0) || Peña (3–1) || || 2:50 || 32,593|| 18–17
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 36 || May 16 || Diamondbacks || 0–12 || Scherzer (1–3) || Kawakami (2–5) || || 3:10 || 30,162|| 18–18
|- style="background:#bbbbbb"
| – || May 17 || Diamondbacks || colspan='6' |Rescheduled for August 17 || 18–18
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 38 || May 18 || Rockies || 1–5 || Marquis (5–3) || Lowe (5–2) || || 2:30 || 15,364|| 18–19
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 39 || May 19 || Rockies || 8–1 || Jurrjens (4–2) || Hammel (0–3) || || 2:46 || 16,749|| 19–19
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 40 || May 20 || Rockies || 12–4 || Vázquez (4–3) || de la Rosa (0–4) || || 3:17 || 19,259|| 20–19
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 41 || May 21 || Rockies || 0–9 || Cook (3–1) || Medlen (0–1) || || 2:35 || 25,481|| 20–20
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 42 || May 22 || Blue Jays || 1–0 || Kawakami (3–5) || Carlson (1–3) || González (7) || 2:19 || 21,533|| 21–20
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 43 || May 23 || Blue Jays || 4–3 || Lowe (6–2) || Janssen (0–1) || Soriano (4) || 2:31 || 27,377|| 22–20
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 44 || May 24 || Blue Jays || 10–2 || Bennett (2–1) || Camp (0–2) || || 2:59 || 23,971|| 23–20
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 45 || May 25 || @ Giants || 2–8 || Sánchez (2–4) || Vázquez (4–4) || || 3:04 || 40,034|| 23–21
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 46 || May 26 || @ Giants || 0–4 || Lincecum (4–1) || Medlen (0–2) || || 2:08 || 29,485|| 23–22
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 47 || May 27 || @ Giants || 3–6 || Johnson (4–4) || Kawakami (3–6) || Wilson (10) || 2:59 || 27,744|| 23–23
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 48 || May 28 || @ Diamondbacks || 2–5 || Haren (4–4) || Lowe (6–3) || Qualls (12) || 2:20 || 19,452|| 23–24
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 49 || May 29 || @ Diamondbacks || 10–6 || Jurrjens (5–2) || Garland (4–4) || || 3:10 || 26,146|| 24–24
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 50 || May 30 || @ Diamondbacks || 2–3 || Peña (5–2) || Bennett (2–2) || || 3:06 || 35,039|| 24–25
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 51 || May 31 || @ Diamondbacks || 9–3 || Medlen (1–2) || Scherzer (2–4) || || 2:56 || 30,020|| 25–25

|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 52 || June 2 || Cubs || 6–5 || Soriano (1–0) || Heilman (2–3) || || 3:39 || 30,262|| 26–25
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 53 || June 3 || Cubs || 2–3 || Guzmán (2–0) || Bennett (2–3) || Gregg (9) || 3:19 || 30,646|| 26–26
|- style="background:#bbbbbb"
| – || June 4 || Cubs || colspan='6' |Rescheduled for June 22 || 26–26
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 55 || June 5 || Brewers || 0–4 || Gallardo (6–2) || Jurrjens (5–3) || || 2:23 || 23,327|| 26–27
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 56 || June 6 || Brewers || 0–3 || Suppan (4–4) || Vázquez (4–5) || Hoffman (15) || 2:57 || 32,721|| 26–28
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 57 || June 7 || Brewers || 8–7 || O'Flaherty (1–0) || Villanueva (2–4) || González (8) || 2:49 || 33,428|| 27–28
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 58 || June 8 || Pirates || 7–6 || Medlen (2–2) || Karstens (2–4) || || 4:46 || 21,856|| 28–28
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 59 || June 9 || Pirates || 4–3 || Lowe (7–3) || Burnett (1–2) || Soriano (5) || 2:35 || 20,124|| 29–28
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 60 || June 10 || Pirates || 2–3 || Karstens (3–4) || Jurrjens (5–4) || Capps (14) || 2:42 || 21,610|| 29–29
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 61 || June 11 || Pirates || 1–3 || Jackson (2–1) || Soriano (1–1) || Capps (15) || 2:37 || 29,331|| 29–30
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 62 || June 12 || @ Orioles || 7–2 || Hanson (1–0) || Berken (1–3) || || 3:15 || 28,469|| 30–30
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 63 || June 13 || @ Orioles || 4–8 || Bass (4–1) || O'Flaherty (1–1) || || 3:07 || 29,645|| 30–31
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 64 || June 14 || @ Orioles || 2–11 || Bergesen (4–2) || Lowe (7–4) || || 2:42 || 26,770|| 30–32
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 65 || June 16 || @ Reds || 2–7 || Herrera (1–2) || Jurrjens (5–5) || || 2:53 || 19,127|| 30–33
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 66 || June 17 || @ Reds || 3–4 || Owings (4–7) || Vázquez (4–6) || Cordero (16) || 2:44 || 27,455|| 30–34
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 67 || June 18 || @ Reds || 7–0 || Hanson (2–0) || Maloney (0–2)|| || 3:15 || 24,657|| 31–34
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 68 || June 19 || @ Red Sox || 8–2 || Kawakami (4–6) || Matsuzaka (1–5) || || 2:49 || 37,703|| 32–34
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 69 || June 20 || @ Red Sox || 0–3 || Beckett (8–3) || Lowe (7–5) || || 2:11 || 38,029|| 32–35
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 70 || June 21 || @ Red Sox || 5–6 || Papelbon (1–1) || Bennett (2–4) || || 2:47 || 37,243|| 32–36
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 54 || June 22 || Cubs || 2–0 || Vázquez (5–6) || Dempster (4–5) || Soriano (6) || 2:58 || 31,701|| 33–36
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 71 || June 23 || Yankees || 4–0 || Hanson (3–0) || Wang (0–6) || || 2:47 || 40,828|| 34–36
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 72 || June 24 || Yankees || 4–8 || Chamberlain (4–2) || Medlen (2–3) || Rivera (16)|| 3:16 || 42,315|| 34–37
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 73 || June 25 || Yankees || 7–11 || Aceves (5–1) || Lowe (7–6) || Rivera (17) || 3:49 || 47,508|| 34–38
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 74 || June 26 || Red Sox || 1–4 || Beckett (9–3) || Jurrjens (5–6) || || 2:46 || 48,418|| 34–39
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 75 || June 27 || Red Sox || 0–1 || Wakefield (10–3) || Vázquez (5–7) || Papelbon (18) || 2:46 || 48,151|| 34–40
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 76 || June 28 || Red Sox || 2–1 || Hanson (4–0) || Penny (6–3) || Gonzalez (9) || 3:01 || 41,463|| 35–40
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 77 || June 30 || Phillies || 5–4 || Moylan (2–2) || Park (3–2) || || 3:14 || 31,818|| 36–40

|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 78 || July 1 || Phillies || 11–1 || Jurrjens (6–6) || Hamels (4–5) || || 2:32 || 25,212|| 37–40
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 79 || July 2 || Phillies || 5–2 || Gonzalez (3–0) || Madson (2–4) || Soriano (7) || 3:08 || 38,254|| 38–40
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 80 || July 3 || @ Nationals || 9–8 || Logan (1–0) || Colomé (1–1) || Soriano (8) || 3:28 || 33,982|| 39–40
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 81 || July 4 || @ Nationals || 3–5 || Lannan (6–5) || Gonzalez (3–1) || MacDougal (4) || 2:34 || 23,708|| 39–41
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 82 || July 5 || @ Nationals || 3–5 || Olsen (2–4) || Lowe (7–7) || MacDougal (5)|| 2:39 || 22,677|| 39–42
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 83 || July 6 || @ Cubs || 2–4 || Wells (4–3) || Jurrjens (6–7) || Gregg (15) || 2:30 || 40,042|| 39–43
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 84 || July 7 || @ Cubs || 2–1 || Vázquez (6–7) || Zambrano (4–4) || Soriano (9) || 2:44 || 40,359|| 40–43
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 85 || July 8 || @ Cubs || 4–1 || Kawakami (5–6) || Hart (0–1) || Soriano (10) || 2:50 || 40,531|| 41–43
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 86 || July 9 || @ Rockies || 6–7 || Rincón (2–0) || Gonzalez (3–2) || Street (22) || 3:11 || 30,392|| 41–44
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 87 || July 10 || @ Rockies || 4–1 || Lowe (8–7) || Jiménez (6–9) || Soriano (11) || 2:40 || 35,238|| 42–44
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 88 || July 11 || @ Rockies || 4–3 || Jurrjens (7–7) || Marquis (11–6) || Soriano (12) || 2:51 || 38,065|| 43–44
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 89 || July 12 || @ Rockies || 7–8 || Street (3–1)|| Valdez (0–1) || || 3:15 || 33,825|| 43–45
|- style="text-align:center;" style="background:##f0e68c"
| – || July 14 || colspan='9'|2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in St. Louis, Missouri
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 90 || July 16 || Mets || 5–3 || Acosta (1–0) || Feliciano (2–3) || Soriano (13) || 2:57 || 32,736|| 44–45
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 91 || July 17 || Mets || 11–0 || Jurrjens (8–7) || Pelfrey (7–5) || || 2:38 || 50,704|| 45–45
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 92 || July 18 || Mets || 1–5 || Santana (11–7) || Kawakami (5–7) || || 3:22 || 51,175|| 45–46
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 93 || July 19 || Mets || 7–1 || Vázquez (7–7) || Redding (1–4) || || 2:47 || 34,293|| 46–46
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 94 || July 20 || Giants || 11–3 || Hanson (5–0) || Romo (2–1) || || 2:50 || 21,988|| 47–46
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 95 || July 21 || Giants || 8–1 || Lowe (9–7) || Sadowski (2–2) || || 2:41 || 25,135|| 48–46
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 96 || July 22 || Giants || 4–2 || Jurrjens (9–7) || Lincecum (10–3) || Soriano (14) || 2:28 || 34,672|| 49–46
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 97 || July 23 || Giants || 1–5 || Zito (6–10) || Gonzalez (3–3) || || 2:58 || 31,727|| 49–47
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 98 || July 24 || @ Brewers || 9–4 || Vázquez (8–7) || Villanueva (2–7) || || 3:25 || 41,941|| 50–47
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 99 || July 25 || @ Brewers || 0–4 || Gollardo (9–7) || Hanson (5–1) || || 2:56 || 43,565|| 50–48
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 100 || July 26 || @ Brewers || 10–2 || Lowe (10–7) || Looper (9–5) || || 2:47 || 43,471|| 51–48
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 101 || July 28 || @ Marlins || 3–4 || Núñez (3–3) || Soriano (1–2) || || 2:48 || 13,128|| 51–49
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 102 || July 29 || @ Marlins || 3–6 || Johnson (10–2) || Kawakami (5–8) || Núñez (8) || 2:48 || 13,518|| 51–50
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 103 || July 30 || @ Marlins || 6–3 || Moylan (3–2) || Ayala (1–3) || Soriano (15) || 3:16 || 14,226|| 52–50
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 104 || July 31 || Dodgers || 0–5 || Schmidt (2–1) || Hanson (5–2) || || 2:53 || 45,225|| 52–51

|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 105 || August 1 || Dodgers || 4–3 || Lowe (11–7) || Wolf (5–6) || Soriano (16) || 2:41 || 49,843|| 53–51
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 106 || August 2 || Dodgers || 1–9 || Billingsley (11–6) || Jurrjens (9–8) || || 3:22 || 37,654|| 53–52
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 107 || August 3 || @ Padres || 2–4 || Latos (3–1) || Kawakami (5–9) || Bell (27) || 2:33 || 20,423|| 53–53
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 108 || August 4 || @ Padres || 9–2 || Vázquez (9–7) || Stauffer (1–3) || || 2:52 || 17,916|| 54–53
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 109 || August 5 || @ Padres || 6–2 || Hanson (6–2) || Gaudin (4–10) || || 2:52 || 21,816|| 55–53
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 110 || August 6 || @ Dodgers || 4–5 || Elbert (2–0) || Soriano (1–3) || || 3:13 || 46,399|| 55–54
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 111 || August 7 || @ Dodgers || 9–5 || Moylan (4–2) || Troncoso (4–1) || || 4:20 || 53,184|| 56–54
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 112 || August 8 || @ Dodgers || 2–1 || Medlen (3–3) || Mota (3–3) || Soriano (17) || 3:31 || 53,338|| 57–54
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 113 || August 9 || @ Dodgers || 8–2 || Vázquez (10–7) || Stults (4–3) || || 2:53 || 45,438|| 58–54
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 114 || August 11 || Nationals || 8–1 || Hanson (7–2) || Lannan (8–9) || || 3:01 || 19,273|| 59–54
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 115 || August 12 || Nationals || 6–2 || Lowe (12–7) || Sosa (1–1) || || 2:34 || 17,886|| 60–54
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 116 || August 14 || Phillies || 2–3 || Madson (4–4) || Soriano (1–4) || Lidge (22) || 2:21 || 37,639|| 60–55
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 117 || August 15 || Phillies || 4–3 || Moylan (5–2) || Lidge (0–5) || || 2:54 || 44,043|| 61–55
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 118 || August 16 || Phillies || 1–4 || Happ (9–2) || Vázquez (10–8) || Lidge (23) || 2:45 || 25,215|| 61–56
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 37 || August 17 || Diamondbacks || 9–4 || Hanson (8–2) || Scherzer (7–7) || || 2:45 || 23,668|| 62–56
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 119 || August 18 || @ Mets || 4–9 || Pérez (3–3) || Lowe (12–8) || || 2:52 || 38,613|| 62–57
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 120 || August 19 || @ Mets || 14–2 || Jurrjens (10–8) || Parnell (3–5) || || 2:54 || 38,602|| 63–57
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 121 || August 20 || @ Mets || 3–2 || Kawakami (6–9) || Santana (13–9) || Soriano (18) || 2:41 || 39,105|| 64–57
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 122 || August 21 || Marlins || 3–5 || Sánchez (2–4) || Vázquez (10–9) || Núñez (14) || 2:48 || 22,608|| 64–58
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 123 || August 22 || Marlins || 4–3 || Hanson (9–2) || Volstad (9–10) || Soriano (19) || 2:47 || 35,200|| 65–58
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 124 || August 23 || Marlins || 7–5 || Moylan (6–2) || Calero (2–2) || Soriano (20) || 3:04 || 30,478|| 66–58
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 125 || August 25 || Padres || 1–2 || Thatcher (1–0) || Medlen (3–4) || Mujica (2) || 3:43 || 15,389|| 66–59
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 126 || August 26 || Padres || 5–12 || Stauffer (2–6) || Kawakami (6–10) || || 3:23 || 15,619|| 66–60
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 127 || August 27 || Padres || 9–1 || Vázquez (11–9) || Richard (7–4) || || 2:50 || 18,651|| 67–60
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 128 || August 28 || @ Phillies || 2–4 || Moyer (12–9) || Hanson (9–3) || Lidge (26) || 2:24 || 44,747|| 67–61
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 129 || August 29 || @ Phillies || 9–1 || Lowe (13–8) || Lee (12–10) || || 2:46 || 45,134|| 68–61
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 130 || August 30 || @ Phillies || 2–3 || Blanton (9–6) || Jurrjens (10–9) || Lidge (27) || 2:27 || 44,828|| 68–62
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 131 || August 31 || @ Marlins || 5–2 || Kawakami (7–10) || Johnson (13–4) || || 2:38 || 12,244|| 69–62

|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 132 || September 1 || @ Marlins || 4–3 || Hudson (1–0) || Sánchez (2–6) || Soriano (21) || 3:02 || 14,024|| 70–62
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 133 || September 2 || @ Marlins || 7–8 || Núñez (4–4) || Gonzalez (3–4) || || 3:40 || 14,723|| 70–63
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 134 || September 3 || @ Marlins || 3–8 || Nolasco (10–8) || Medlen (3–5) || || 3:13 || 13,711|| 70–64
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 135 || September 4 || Reds || 1–3 || Arroyo (12–12) || Lowe (13–9) || || 2:25 || 24,219|| 70–65
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 136 || September 5 || Reds || 1–3 || Wells (1–3) || Jurrjens (10–10) || || 2:40 || 29,078|| 70–66
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 137 || September 6 || Reds || 2–4 || Owings (7–12) || Kawakami (7–11) || || 3:39 || 32,397|| 70–67
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 138 || September 8 || @ Astros || 2–1 || Vázquez (12–9) || Paulino (2–8) || Soriano (22) || 2:33 || 26,081|| 71–67
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 139 || September 9 || @ Astros || 1–2 || Valverde (4–2) || Soriano (1–5) || || 2:13 || 22,392|| 71–68
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 140 || September 10 || @ Astros || 9–7 || Lowe (14–9) || Oswalt (8–6) || Gonzalez (10) || 3:11 || 26,552|| 72–68
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 141 || September 11 || @ Cardinals || 1–0 || Jurrjens (11–10) || Piñeiro (14–10) || Soriano (23) || 2:34 || 43,984|| 73–68
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 142 || September 12 || @ Cardinals || 7–6 || Gonzalez (4–4) || Franklin (2–3) || Soriano (24) || 3:13 || 43,869|| 74–68
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 143 || September 13 || @ Cardinals || 9–2 || Vázquez (13–9) || Carpenter (16–4) || || 2:08 || 41,179|| 75–68
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 144 || September 15 || Mets || 6–0 || Hanson (10–3) || Misch (1–3) || || 2:27 || 25,094|| 76–68
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 145 || September 16 || Mets || 6–5 || O'Flaherty (2–1) || Rodríguez (3–5) || || 3:32 || 17,988|| 77–68
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 146 || September 17 || Mets || 7–3 || Jurrjens (12–10) || Figueroa (2–6) || || 2:22 || 20,192|| 78–68
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 147 || September 18 || Phillies || 4–9 || Kendrick (2–1) || Hudson (1–1) || || 2:57 || 27,241|| 78–69
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 148 || September 19 || Phillies || 6–4 || Vázquez (14–9) || Martínez (5–1) || || 2:43 || 35,818|| 79–69
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 149 || September 20 || Phillies || 2–4 || Walker (2–0) || Hanson (10–4) || Lidge (31) || 2:46 || 29,452|| 79–70
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 150 || September 21 || @ Mets || 11–3 || Lowe (15–9) || Misch (1–4) || Kawakami (1) || 2:32 || 37,706|| 80–70
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 151 || September 22 || @ Mets || 3–1 || Jurrjens (13–10) || Figueroa (2–7) || Soriano (25) || 2:46 || 37,823|| 81–70
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 152 || September 23 || @ Mets || 5–2 || Hudson (2–1)|| Pelfrey (10–12) || Soriano (26) || 3:18 || 38,266|| 82–70
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 153 || September 25 || @ Nationals || 4–1 || Vázquez (15–9)|| Lannan (9–13) || || 2:27 || 28,276|| 83–70
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 154 || September 26 || @ Nationals || 11–5 || Hanson (11–4) || Mock (3–10) || || 2:48 || 29,058|| 84–70
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 155 || September 27 || @ Nationals || 6–3 || Gonzalez (5–4) || MacDougal (1–1) || Soriano (27) || 2:55 || 27,840|| 85–70
|- style="background:#bbffbb"
| 156 || September 28 || Marlins || 4–0 || Jurrjens (14–10) || Sánchez (3–8) || || 2:37 || 25,046|| 86–70
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 157 || September 29 || Marlins || 4–5 || Pinto (4–1) || Kawakami (7–12) || Núñez (25) || 3:20 || 28,669|| 86–71
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 158 || September 30 || Marlins || 4–5 || Nolasco (13–9) || Vázquez (15–10) || Donnelly (2) || 3:00 || 31,513|| 86–72

|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 159 || October 1 || Nationals || 1–2 || Clippard (4–2) || Soriano (1–6) || MacDougal (19) || 2:47 || 38,237|| 86–73
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 160 || October 2 || Nationals || 0–6 || Hernández (9–12) || Lowe (15–10) || MacDougal (20) || 2:56 || 33,124|| 86–74
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 161 || October 3 || Nationals || 4–6 || Segovia (1–0) || Acosta (1–1) || Kensing (1) || 3:16 || 28,278|| 86–75
|- style="background:#ffbbbb"
| 162 || October 4 || Nationals || 1–2 || Kensing (1–2) || Logan (1–1) || || 4:18 || 36,307|| 86–76

|-
|

Roster

Mid-season trades

Player stats

Most games at position
Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games Played

As of October 4, 2009
Source: ESPN.com-Atlanta Braves Lineup-Games By Position
× = No longer with team
† = On DL

Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

As of October 4, 2009
* = Acquired Mid-Season
# = Not on Active roster
"()" = Stats with Braves

Pitching
Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

As of October 4, 2009
† = No longer with team
# = Not on Active roster

Farm system

References

External links

2009 Atlanta Braves season at Baseball Reference
2009 Atlanta Braves season Official Site
Atlanta Braves at ESPN.com
(Archived 2009-06-20)

Atlanta Braves seasons
Atlanta Braves
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