Did you know that Ichiro was the first Mariners bobblehead (July 28, 2001)? According to this photo that Grant Bronsdon took hours before the game, the people are very excited to get their hands on today’s Ichiro bobblehead.
As for the game, here’s a piece of good news: Robbie Ray gets a lower percentage of his strikes on foul balls, and a higher percentage of his strikes on whiffs, than any of the other Mariners starters Cleveland has faced this series. Maybe that’s the unstoppable force to the immovable object of the Guardians contact rate.