Rizzs: The throw by Ichiro, beautiful peg. He got him! Holy smokes! A laser beam strike from Ichiro to the third baseman David Bell, and Terrence Long is gunned down at third base. What a throw!

Against almost every other rookie right fielder in history, taking third base would have been standard baseball strategy. Long never had a chance. Ichiro’s throw, as The Seattle Times recalls ...

He hit the second-base bag in stride and rounded for third. Out in right ... and what's become known as "The Throw": It's too convenient to say the above was how Ichiro announced himself to ...

Even now, the thought of him unleashing a perfect throw to third base—one of his signature plays—feels entirely believable. Ichiro Suzuki’s work ethic and discipline never faded, and even in ...

Early in his first month in the majors, Mariners announcer Dave Niehaus made an instant legend of Ichiro with his description ...

By the time Long reached third base, Ichiro had unleashed a strike to David Bell to get Long. “It was going to take a perfect throw to get me. And it was a perfect throw,” Long said.

On April 11, 2001, the Oakland A’s Terrence Long tried to advance from first to third on a single to right field. Ichiro had other ideas. His throw was perfect, Long was out, and you have to see ...

Ichiro Suzuki warms up on deck before the start of the third inning, his first at-bat as a Mariner this season. The Seattle Mariners played the Cleveland Indians in a baseball game on Opening Day ...