Milestone man: Ichiro Suzuki singles in the first inning to collect the 2,500th hit of his major league career against the Diamondbacks on Tuesday in Phoenix. KYODOIchiro led off the game with his 2,500th career hit and finished 4-for-5 with two doubles, two RBIs and two runs scored and the Seattle Mariners outlasted the Arizona Diamondbacks 12-9 in 10 innings on Tuesday night."If you look at me now and if you look at me when I first got here in 2001, if I said my first day that my goal is to hit 2,500, on that day people would say that I was crazy," Ichiro said through an interpreter. "Now looking at (it), things do come true."Between his nine seasons in the Pacific League and his 12-plus seasons in Seattle, Ichiro has 3,781 hits, the third most among professional players in either country, trailing only Pete Rose (4,256) and Ty Cobb (4,191)."I was there when (former All-Star Roberto) Alomar got his 2,500th hit, and I remember thinking at the time that it was an astronomical figure," Ichiro said. "So to have come this far means something to me."The milestone came the night after Seattle manager Eric Wedge had given Ichiro his second day off of the season."Yesterday was tough for me," Ichiro said. "It was very regrettable because you want to go out there and perform but I understand the skipper's situation. It depends from here on how I will be given the day off."Wedge had no doubts spending a night in the dugout helped his right fielder."You saw the way he swung the bat today," Wedge said. "From his first swing in his first at-bat when he fouled that pitch back, that got my attention right away. Then he dropped a couple in there and hit a couple hard."It is something that he has to understand that it's not a bad thing if you get a day off now and then. I know what he is conditioned for and that he wants to play every day but what we are looking for is getting the most out of everybody over 162 games."Ichiro capped the Mariners' three-run 10th inning when he used his classic inside-out swing to slice a double just inside the left-field line that easily scored Casper Wells and put Seattle in front 12-9.Wells had hit a pinch-hit, two-run single off sidewinding right-hander Brad Ziegler to give the Mariners an 11-9 lead.J.J. Putz (1-4) walked Justin Smoak leading off the 10th, Dustin Ackley looped a single to center, moving pinch runner Munenori Kawasaki to second and Brendan Ryan advanced the runners with a sacrifice bunt before Wells came to the plate."I was kind of picking up where he released from, which basically was the dirt," Wells said. "I was looking for a pitch that I could handle and hit it hard. You have to have your focus."Smoak, Ryan and Kyle Seager homered for the Mariners, who have won three of their past four.Aaron Hill, Gerardo Parra and Paul Goldschmidt homered for Arizona, which saw its six-game home winning streak snapped.
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Friday, June 22, 2012
Ichiro gets 2,500th hit of stellar MLB career
PHOENIX — Ichiro Suzuki wasted little time reaching another milestone after a rare day off.Milestone man: Ichiro Suzuki singles in the first inning to collect the 2,500th hit of his major league career against the Diamondbacks on Tuesday in Phoenix. KYODOIchiro led off the game with his 2,500th career hit and finished 4-for-5 with two doubles, two RBIs and two runs scored and the Seattle Mariners outlasted the Arizona Diamondbacks 12-9 in 10 innings on Tuesday night."If you look at me now and if you look at me when I first got here in 2001, if I said my first day that my goal is to hit 2,500, on that day people would say that I was crazy," Ichiro said through an interpreter. "Now looking at (it), things do come true."Between his nine seasons in the Pacific League and his 12-plus seasons in Seattle, Ichiro has 3,781 hits, the third most among professional players in either country, trailing only Pete Rose (4,256) and Ty Cobb (4,191)."I was there when (former All-Star Roberto) Alomar got his 2,500th hit, and I remember thinking at the time that it was an astronomical figure," Ichiro said. "So to have come this far means something to me."The milestone came the night after Seattle manager Eric Wedge had given Ichiro his second day off of the season."Yesterday was tough for me," Ichiro said. "It was very regrettable because you want to go out there and perform but I understand the skipper's situation. It depends from here on how I will be given the day off."Wedge had no doubts spending a night in the dugout helped his right fielder."You saw the way he swung the bat today," Wedge said. "From his first swing in his first at-bat when he fouled that pitch back, that got my attention right away. Then he dropped a couple in there and hit a couple hard."It is something that he has to understand that it's not a bad thing if you get a day off now and then. I know what he is conditioned for and that he wants to play every day but what we are looking for is getting the most out of everybody over 162 games."Ichiro capped the Mariners' three-run 10th inning when he used his classic inside-out swing to slice a double just inside the left-field line that easily scored Casper Wells and put Seattle in front 12-9.Wells had hit a pinch-hit, two-run single off sidewinding right-hander Brad Ziegler to give the Mariners an 11-9 lead.J.J. Putz (1-4) walked Justin Smoak leading off the 10th, Dustin Ackley looped a single to center, moving pinch runner Munenori Kawasaki to second and Brendan Ryan advanced the runners with a sacrifice bunt before Wells came to the plate."I was kind of picking up where he released from, which basically was the dirt," Wells said. "I was looking for a pitch that I could handle and hit it hard. You have to have your focus."Smoak, Ryan and Kyle Seager homered for the Mariners, who have won three of their past four.Aaron Hill, Gerardo Parra and Paul Goldschmidt homered for Arizona, which saw its six-game home winning streak snapped.
Milestone man: Ichiro Suzuki singles in the first inning to collect the 2,500th hit of his major league career against the Diamondbacks on Tuesday in Phoenix. KYODOIchiro led off the game with his 2,500th career hit and finished 4-for-5 with two doubles, two RBIs and two runs scored and the Seattle Mariners outlasted the Arizona Diamondbacks 12-9 in 10 innings on Tuesday night."If you look at me now and if you look at me when I first got here in 2001, if I said my first day that my goal is to hit 2,500, on that day people would say that I was crazy," Ichiro said through an interpreter. "Now looking at (it), things do come true."Between his nine seasons in the Pacific League and his 12-plus seasons in Seattle, Ichiro has 3,781 hits, the third most among professional players in either country, trailing only Pete Rose (4,256) and Ty Cobb (4,191)."I was there when (former All-Star Roberto) Alomar got his 2,500th hit, and I remember thinking at the time that it was an astronomical figure," Ichiro said. "So to have come this far means something to me."The milestone came the night after Seattle manager Eric Wedge had given Ichiro his second day off of the season."Yesterday was tough for me," Ichiro said. "It was very regrettable because you want to go out there and perform but I understand the skipper's situation. It depends from here on how I will be given the day off."Wedge had no doubts spending a night in the dugout helped his right fielder."You saw the way he swung the bat today," Wedge said. "From his first swing in his first at-bat when he fouled that pitch back, that got my attention right away. Then he dropped a couple in there and hit a couple hard."It is something that he has to understand that it's not a bad thing if you get a day off now and then. I know what he is conditioned for and that he wants to play every day but what we are looking for is getting the most out of everybody over 162 games."Ichiro capped the Mariners' three-run 10th inning when he used his classic inside-out swing to slice a double just inside the left-field line that easily scored Casper Wells and put Seattle in front 12-9.Wells had hit a pinch-hit, two-run single off sidewinding right-hander Brad Ziegler to give the Mariners an 11-9 lead.J.J. Putz (1-4) walked Justin Smoak leading off the 10th, Dustin Ackley looped a single to center, moving pinch runner Munenori Kawasaki to second and Brendan Ryan advanced the runners with a sacrifice bunt before Wells came to the plate."I was kind of picking up where he released from, which basically was the dirt," Wells said. "I was looking for a pitch that I could handle and hit it hard. You have to have your focus."Smoak, Ryan and Kyle Seager homered for the Mariners, who have won three of their past four.Aaron Hill, Gerardo Parra and Paul Goldschmidt homered for Arizona, which saw its six-game home winning streak snapped.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Sugiuchi maintains stellar form
FukuokaKYODO
On a roll: Giants pitcher Toshiya Sugiuchi extended his scoreless innings streak to 24 on Tuesday, tossing seven shutout innings. Yomiuri defeated the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 5-1. KYODOSix days after throwing a no-hitter, Toshiya Sugiuchi of the Giants allowed just one hit in seven scoreless innings against his old team on Tuesday at Yahoo Dome.Working in his former home park, Sugiuchi allowed just one hit and a walk in a 5-1 win over the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks that boosted Yomiuri to within half a game of first place in the Central League.Sugiuchi (8-1) held the Hawks hitless until Tomoaki Egawa's two-out single in the fifth. The southpaw had gone 16 2/3 innings without allowing a hit and has now gone 24 innings without allowing a run. The CL's pitcher of the month for May, when he fanned 50 batters, started June by striking out eight."While I reminded myself to stay calm, I felt at first that last time's no-hitter was a burden to me," said Sugiuchi.Edgar Gonzalez broke up a scoreless game with a fourth-inning sacrifice fly and made it 3-0 with a two-run home run in the sixth. Two batters later, Ryuichi Kajimae made it 4-0 with an RBI double.Another Giants pitching streak came to an end in the ninth, when lefty Tetsuya Yamaguchi surrendered a homer to light-hitting Kenji Akashi. In his previous game, the reliever had equaled a CL record with 24 scoreless appearances to start the season.Carp 12, Fighters 3At Sapporo Dome, Hokkaido Nippon Ham starter and PL ERA leader Mitsuo Yoshikawa was ejected in the third inning for hitting Akihiro Higashide in the head with a pitch and things rapidly unraveled in a blowout loss to Hiroshima.Kenji Tsuchiya (0-1), who was activated that day, gave up the lead two pitches later on a three-run homer by Masato Akamatsu. The 12 runs were the most scored by the Carp this season.Lions 7, Dragons 4At Seibu Dome, Takeya Nakamura belted a three-run homer, his fifth in four games, as Pacific League cellar dweller Seibu handed CL-leading Chunichi its third straight loss.Lions right-hander Takayuki Kishi (5-5) allowed a run in seven innings for the win. The Dragons' Tony Blanco, the CL's player of the month for May, hit a consolation homer in the eighth. The two-run shot was his 100th in Japan.Tigers 3, Eagles 1At Sendai's Kleenex Stadium, Tohoku Rakuten's Koji Aoyama, the Pacific League's pitcher of the month for May, walked the first two batters he faced in the ninth before surrendering a tie-breaking single to Hanshin's Craig Brazell.Tomoaki Kanemoto, without a home run since April 1, homered in Sendai, where he attended Tohoku Fukushi University. With the exception of 2009, he has hit at least one homer there every year since interleague play began in 2005.Buffaloes 5, Swallows 0At Osaka's Kyocera Dome, Evan MacLane (3-2) scattered five hits and a walk over six innings, and Hirotoshi Kitagawa belted a three-run homer as Orix snapped Tokyo Yakult's three-game winning streak.The Buffaloes' Bobby Scales started the trouble in the fourth inning with a one-out double off Tatsuya Masubuchi (1-2), who issued a bases-loaded walk and run-scoring wild pitch in the inning. The Swallows have one tie and 10 losses in their last 11 games against Orix.Marines 3, BayStars 2At Chiba's QVC Marine Field, Chiba Lotte's Katsuya Kakunaka tied it 2-2 in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI triple and scored the go-ahead run on Toshiaki Imae's sacrifice fly.Marines starter Shunsuke Watanabe allowed a run in 5 2/3 innings. He left with two outs in the top of the sixth and a man on, but the bullpen faltered as Yokohama took the lead in the inning on a two-run single by Alex Ramirez.
On a roll: Giants pitcher Toshiya Sugiuchi extended his scoreless innings streak to 24 on Tuesday, tossing seven shutout innings. Yomiuri defeated the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 5-1. KYODOSix days after throwing a no-hitter, Toshiya Sugiuchi of the Giants allowed just one hit in seven scoreless innings against his old team on Tuesday at Yahoo Dome.Working in his former home park, Sugiuchi allowed just one hit and a walk in a 5-1 win over the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks that boosted Yomiuri to within half a game of first place in the Central League.Sugiuchi (8-1) held the Hawks hitless until Tomoaki Egawa's two-out single in the fifth. The southpaw had gone 16 2/3 innings without allowing a hit and has now gone 24 innings without allowing a run. The CL's pitcher of the month for May, when he fanned 50 batters, started June by striking out eight."While I reminded myself to stay calm, I felt at first that last time's no-hitter was a burden to me," said Sugiuchi.Edgar Gonzalez broke up a scoreless game with a fourth-inning sacrifice fly and made it 3-0 with a two-run home run in the sixth. Two batters later, Ryuichi Kajimae made it 4-0 with an RBI double.Another Giants pitching streak came to an end in the ninth, when lefty Tetsuya Yamaguchi surrendered a homer to light-hitting Kenji Akashi. In his previous game, the reliever had equaled a CL record with 24 scoreless appearances to start the season.Carp 12, Fighters 3At Sapporo Dome, Hokkaido Nippon Ham starter and PL ERA leader Mitsuo Yoshikawa was ejected in the third inning for hitting Akihiro Higashide in the head with a pitch and things rapidly unraveled in a blowout loss to Hiroshima.Kenji Tsuchiya (0-1), who was activated that day, gave up the lead two pitches later on a three-run homer by Masato Akamatsu. The 12 runs were the most scored by the Carp this season.Lions 7, Dragons 4At Seibu Dome, Takeya Nakamura belted a three-run homer, his fifth in four games, as Pacific League cellar dweller Seibu handed CL-leading Chunichi its third straight loss.Lions right-hander Takayuki Kishi (5-5) allowed a run in seven innings for the win. The Dragons' Tony Blanco, the CL's player of the month for May, hit a consolation homer in the eighth. The two-run shot was his 100th in Japan.Tigers 3, Eagles 1At Sendai's Kleenex Stadium, Tohoku Rakuten's Koji Aoyama, the Pacific League's pitcher of the month for May, walked the first two batters he faced in the ninth before surrendering a tie-breaking single to Hanshin's Craig Brazell.Tomoaki Kanemoto, without a home run since April 1, homered in Sendai, where he attended Tohoku Fukushi University. With the exception of 2009, he has hit at least one homer there every year since interleague play began in 2005.Buffaloes 5, Swallows 0At Osaka's Kyocera Dome, Evan MacLane (3-2) scattered five hits and a walk over six innings, and Hirotoshi Kitagawa belted a three-run homer as Orix snapped Tokyo Yakult's three-game winning streak.The Buffaloes' Bobby Scales started the trouble in the fourth inning with a one-out double off Tatsuya Masubuchi (1-2), who issued a bases-loaded walk and run-scoring wild pitch in the inning. The Swallows have one tie and 10 losses in their last 11 games against Orix.Marines 3, BayStars 2At Chiba's QVC Marine Field, Chiba Lotte's Katsuya Kakunaka tied it 2-2 in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI triple and scored the go-ahead run on Toshiaki Imae's sacrifice fly.Marines starter Shunsuke Watanabe allowed a run in 5 2/3 innings. He left with two outs in the top of the sixth and a man on, but the bullpen faltered as Yokohama took the lead in the inning on a two-run single by Alex Ramirez.
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