Can you believe it’s never been done? No one has ever hit an inside-the-park homerun in an All-Star game in major league history. (For those of you who don’t habla baseball parlance, an “inside-the-park homerun” is not really a homerun, but is instead a run scored when a player hits a ball that DOESN’T go out of the park (thus, not technically a “homerun”), but stays in, and the batter manages to score anyway on the same play.) Besides the homerun, Suzuki had 3 hits and took home the game’s MPV trophy. His homerun also helped the AL take another all-star game (and home field advantage in the World Series) from the NL, which is bull crap (not Ichiro’s feat, but the whole “this one counts” nonsense that MLB has been pulling for the last few years), but that’s for another post. Check out Ichiro’s inside-the-park four bagger video below.
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