Ichiro Suzuki wants to have a drink with writer who left him off Hall of Fame ballot
Associated PressCOOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Ichiro Suzuki wants to raise a glass with the voter who chose not to check off his name on the Hall of Fame ballot. “There’s one writer that I wasn’t able to get a vote from,” he said through a translator Thursday, two days after receiving 393 of 394 votes from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. “I would like to invite him over to my house, and we’ll have a drink together, and we’ll have a good chat.” Suzuki had been to the Hall seven times before attending a news conference Thursday with fellow electees CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. “I get two strikes on Ichi and he hits it off the window,” Sabathia said of the 428-foot drive off the second deck restaurant in right field, at the time the longest home run of Suzuki’s big league career. “Come back around his next at-bat, throw it to him again, first pitch he hits it out again.” Suzuki’s second home run broke a sixth-inning tie in the Mariners’ 3-2 win.
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