{"id":4475,"date":"2013-08-21T23:05:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T03:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2013-08-21T23:05:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T03:05:24","slug":"video-ichiro-suzuki-collects-4000th-career-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/21\/video-ichiro-suzuki-collects-4000th-career-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Ichiro Suzuki collects 4,000th career hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4476\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4476\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/ichrio4000.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/ichrio4000.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/ichrio4000-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/ichrio4000-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ichiro Suzuki reached a milestone recording his 4,000th career hit in Wednesday nights game against Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wapc.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=29917839&amp;width=600&amp;height=336&amp;property=mlb\" height=\"336\" width=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Suzuki broke a tie with Lou Gehrig when he got his 2,722nd major league hit in his 13th season. The speedy outfielder amassed 1,278 hits in nine seasons with Orix of Japan&#8217;s Pacific League.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old collected a single off of R.A. Dickey in the first inning which elicited the Yankees bench to clear.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Rose with 4,256 hits and Ty Cobb with 4,191 are the only two players that have reached the number solely in the major leagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ichiro Suzuki reached a milestone recording his 4,000th career hit in Wednesday nights game against Toronto. Suzuki broke a tie with Lou Gehrig when he got his 2,722nd major league hit in his 13th season. The speedy outfielder amassed 1,278 hits in nine seasons with Orix of Japan&#8217;s Pacific League. The 39-year-old collected a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[58,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ichiro-suzuki","9":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}