Edwin Diaz fired two fastballs right past the hitter. Scott Servais was standing at the end of the dugout when he heard Ichiro Suzuki’s one-liner in perfect English.
“Stay right there, you’re right on him,” Ichiro said.
“Coming from Ichi, in English, that was pretty good,” Servais laughed. “It’s something you might hear from some of our other guys but it just rolled off his tongue. It was pretty good.”
The Mariners have made no qualms with how much they love the 44-year-old franchise icon’s presence on the ball club since they brought him back to Seattle on a minor-league contract this offseason, especially for his presence and tedious approach to a game that he’s played professionally since he was an 18-year-old in Japan.