Reed Johnson, meet Terrence Long. In the second week of his first big-league season, Seattle right fielder Ichiro Suzuki threw out Oakland's Long as he tried to go from first base to third base ...

And when Long made the perfectly logical attempt to take the extra base, Ichiro wrote his name into baseball lore with a low missile of a throw to Mariners’ third baseman David Bell.

Niehaus: What a tremendous throw by Ichiro!I’m here to tell you that Ichiro threw something out of ‘Star Wars’ down there at third base. He fired a shot about three feet off the ground all ...

Colby Patnode: The Throw (2001) April 11, 2001: Ichiro throws an absolute rope from right field to gun down the A’s’ Terrence Long at third base. The call by Dave Niehaus may be as good as the ...

With bag in hand, the diminutive Suzuki Wizard to his teammatesquietly walked up to Perry, grabbed the bills and, just as quickly, returned to his sheltered spot among taller, wider teammates.

What is it about Ichiro that makes him great? Is it his relaxed persona, his ability to make the clutch plays when his team needs him to, the extra step he takes out of the batter's box every ...

At 42, Ichiro is hitting nearly .350. He passed Pete Rose (sort of) as the hit king and is on the verge of 3,000 MLB hits. How did he get here? The only way to know is to watch him work.

SEATTLE (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki's otherworldly talents made an early impression on Dave Niehaus, the Hall of Fame voice of the Seattle Mariners. During Suzuki's first month in the majors in 2001 ...