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Five things we learned Sunday: All hail, Ichiro

Did anything happen Sunday? Yes, stuff did indeed happen.

1. Ichiro Suzuki records 3,000th career hit: In a 2002 profile in Sports Illustarted, Ichiro told writer S.L. Price, "I'm unique. I'm a very rare kind of player." Ichiro always understood himself better than we did, never doubted his ability to keep playing into his 40s, kept stretching and gyrating and we laugh when he says he wants to play until he's 50, but if anyone can play forever it will be Ichiro. As Jim Caple writes, Ichiro followed meticulous standards to get to 3,000 hits.