Ichiro...

[Sooga]

So I was reading about the M's 16-3 rout today against the Royals when a little blurb popped out at me:

"Suzuki, who leads the majors with a .367 batting average, had his 16th multihit game in 20 games. He's hitting .490 since the All-Star break, and .516 in August."

Suzuki's kinda fallen out of the news since his spectacular rookie season, but he's quietly putting up the best numbers of his short career. He's LEADING THE MAJORS in hitting. I didn't even know that. I haven't heard about him all season. And .490 since the all-star break? .490??? That's over a month ago! I couldn't do that on my MVP Baseball 2004 video game with any player, even if I had the difficulty setting on 'Easy'. Oh, and he's currently on pace for 262 hits.