MIAMI, April 26 (Reuters) - Ichiro Suzuki scored his 1,968th run in baseball in the Miami Marlins 8-0 win over the Washington Nationals on Saturday to surpass Sadaharu Oh as Japan's highest ever run scorer.
The 41-year-old scored on Adeiny Hechavarria's three-run homer in the eight inning for his 1,310th in Major League Baseball to go with the 658 he scored in Japan.
But while Ichiro, filling in at left field for the injured Christian Yelich, said it was an "honour" to achieve the mark he said his tally of 230 home runs was no match for Oh's far more impressive figure.