Numbers mean so much in baseball.
For Ichiro Suzuki last season, the number 3,000 meant a tense path on the way to the hitting milestone, but once reached a monumental place in the sport’s history.
“I felt like more than myself, people around me came up to me truly different,” Ichiro said Saturday after completing team workouts at Roger Dean Stadium. “Just the fact that 3,000 hits was accomplished, I kind of realized it means a lot to them. More than myself, I think a lot of people felt like it was a great accomplishment.”
Ichiro said the impact from that stand-up triple he hit off the right field wall at Colorado’s Coors Field on August 7th, 2016 for No.