“He was always someone that was my goal [to emulate],” Ohtani told MLB.com after Ichiro’s storybook retirement in Tokyo in 2019. “He’s somebody people in my generation look up to a lot.” Before Ichiro ...
He didn’t say goodbye until the Mariners opened the season in Japan in 2019. He played two more games and enjoyed a heartfelt farewell at the Tokyo Dome, a fairy-tale ending for a player who spent all ...