Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro Suzuki, often referred to mononymously as Ichiro, is a Japanese professional baseball right fielder for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball. He has spent the bulk of his career with two teams: the Orix Blue Wave of Nippon Professional Baseballin Japan, where he began his professional career, and the Seattle Mariners of MLB in the United States. After playing for the Mariners, he played two and a half seasons in MLB with the New York Yankees. Ichiro has...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth22 October 1973
CountryJapan
I am really proud that I am one of the two major league players to play in the final game. I do think that I have the Japanese flag on my shoulder.
Physically I'm fine. All I have to do is get my timing back, those kinds of things. Physically it's no problem at all.
I wasn't surprised ... there's many situations where the runner on first runs in those situations.
I won't know until I wake up (today).
I sense that MLB is hurting a little bit.
The fans cheering me on, when I play well they clap their hands for me. They're really great.
I think we have to rethink, because now we are on the big stage, and the Americans are a big-stage team. In the Asian round, we felt we had to worry about not only winning, but playing good for the (home) fans. Here, we have one purpose only.
I was able to hit a home run in my first at-bat and I was glad to do it. I didn't have that in mind but I knew we should score first and maintain the lead.
In a tournament like this one, it's important to be the team that scores first.
I won't maintain that emotional level. I guess I'm lucky we have another week left in spring training, and that will give me an opportunity to recover.
We couldn't disregard what our manager was saying.
August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.