3- The number of hitters who have topped Ichiro’s 2,338 hits after the age of 30 (Pete Rose, Sam Rice, Cap Anson).
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The Miami Marlins beat the Colorado Rockies 10-7 on Sunday in a game that featured Ichiro Suzuki’s 3000th hit.
At 42 years, 290 days, Ichiro is the second-oldest player to reach 3,000 hits.
Suzuki joined Paul Molitor as the only players to get their 3,000th hits with triples. I can’t tell you how many times he told me he’d like to see him in a Yankees uniform. That hit came after a stretch that saw Suzuki, mostly used as a pinch hitter these days by the Marlins, go hitless in 11 at-bats over seven games since reaching 2,998 hits on July 28. He launched a long drive to rightfield that carried just beyond the reach of leaping Gerardo Parra and breezed into third standing. Blash smoked a grounder to third baseman Maikel Franco, who stepped on the bag and fired to second baseman Hernandez to erase Rondon, and Hernandez’s relay to first beat Blash by a step.
The 41-year-old Rodriguez will play against Tampa Bay at Yankee Stadium and then be released following Friday’s game.
Ichiro announced himself with an electric 2001 season in which he hit.350 to win the batting title with a rookie record 242 hits while swiping a league-leading 56 bases in sweeping Rookie of the Year and American League MVP honors.
“The level of effort he gave stood out”, the 44-year-old said, adding, “Three-thousand hits is not a figure anyone can aim for”.
Conley’s struggles would continue in the fifth inning after he walked LeMahieu and gave up a single to Dahl. And for me, I thought I should have gotten it two years ago (with more regular playing time).
It was Griffey’s rookie year – August 8, 1989 – and the Mariners twice rallied in a 6-4 victory in 10 innings against the host Angels.
Suzuki struck out in the first inning, hit a comebacker in the third and grounded out to short in the fourth.
One of the most beloved players in the game hit the 3,000 hit milestone. This historic milestone has been in the waiting, but Ichiro finally got the elusive hit.
Ichiro is the fourth player in major league history with 3,000 hits and 10 Gold Gloves, following Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente and Al Kaline. He was coming off the worst year of his career, hitting just.229 and being relegated to backup duty.
When he moved to Seattle in 2001 – his best season runs-total, bar one season – he was lauded as one of the first, and certainly the most anticipated, position players from Japan. The simplicity and clarity of his objective has made him one of the most joyful players to watch in the game’s long history. Major League teams didn’t know if he would be productive with the bat in the Major Leagues or if he could withstand a 162-game season.
Manny Machado homered a career-high three times in three innings as Baltimore routed Chicago to win the three-game series. He left after yielding a two-run homer to Giancarlo Stanton on his 82nd and final pitch in the four-run fourth that boosted the Marlins’ lead to 8-1.
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Dempsey put the Sounders (7-12-3) up 2-1 in the 37th minute, tapping a right footer from the top of the 6-yard box into an open net. Stewart, who is retiring after the season, will finish his stellar career with eight road wins, one fewer than the record nine of Jeff Gordon.
