{"id":344873,"date":"2023-11-08T15:17:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T16:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=344873"},"modified":"2023-11-08T17:00:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:00:33","slug":"ichiro-blasts-a-home-run-that-smashes-a-high-schools-window-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=344873","title":{"rendered":"Ichiro blasts a home run that smashes a high school&#039;s window in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 2007, Ichiro Suzuki was asked how many home runs he could hit if he tried to swing for just power. The two-time batting champion, who averaged about 10 home runs per year through that point in the MLB, answered with a\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/2016\/7\/28\/16041992\/should-ichiro-have-hit-homers-c96633a61262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">shocking figure<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;If I\u2019m allowed to hit .220, I could probably hit 40.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He never tried because from 2007-19 he only eclipsed the 10 home run mark once. On occasion, during batting practice, fans would see a show of Ichiro cranking the ball over the wall, but it never happened in games. That estimation of quadrupling his average must have been an exaggeration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Or was it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">At the age of 50, Ichiro hit a home run that smashed through a high school window in Japan. According to MLB.com, the dinger traveled\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/ichiro-breaks-window-with-home-run\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">426 feet<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, and Ichiro had a wholesome reaction. Video below:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Ichiro <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f62c.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude2c\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f602.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude02\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PVHciOzGFI\">pic.twitter.com\/PVHciOzGFI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Codify (@CodifyBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CodifyBaseball\/status\/1721561634592919754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ichiro was running through basic drills with the students at Asahikawa Higashi High School in Hokkaido, Japan, when he went yard. According to MLB.com, he hit about 63 pitches and twice cleared a 26-foot-high netting around the building.<\/p>\n<p>Ichiro led the league in total hits seven times and holds two of the top-10 single-season records for hits \u2014 including No. 1 overall with 262 in 2004 \u2014 but even in his prime, fans didn&#8217;t get to experience this. A 26-foot high wall wasn&#8217;t enough to stop his ball from traveling well over 400 feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>MLB legend Ichiro Suzuki cranked a home run more than 400 feet and straight into a high school while speaking to students in Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344875,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344873\/revisions\/344875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}