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JUPITER, Fla. – The statistics are deceiving, Ichiro Suzuki said. His .400 batting average belies a decade of futility when facing Yankees closer Mariano Rivera. For years, Suzuki felt awed when ...

SEATTLE -- Two years, five months, three days. Until the instant that Ichiro Suzuki connected on the first pitch he saw, that was the last time that a walk-off home run had been charged to Mariano ...

Now stepping into the batter's box against Mariano Rivera: Ichiro Suzuki. At least that’s the way it will be in terms of the baseball Hall of Fame announcement on Tuesday night when it is ...

Ichiro Suzuki was among the few Japanese players who transitioned well from Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball to Major League Baseball. ... Mariano Rivera with 99.7% Hall of Fame votes; ...

Ichiro Suzuki is heading to the Hall of Fame - but he fell one vote short of history. The Japanese outfielder is one of three players announced Tuesday as part of the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame ...

Mariano Rivera may soon have some company. As of Monday, Ichiro Suzuki had received votes on all ballots made public by voting-tracker Ryan Thibodaux (@NotMrTibbs on Bluesky).

MLB Ichiro Suzuki wants to sit down and talk to Hall of Fame voter who kept him from being a unanimous inductee Mariano Rivera is still the only unanimous Hall of Famer in the sport's history ...