KEN GRIFFEY JR TAKES NAP 2010 Mariners Angels 5/8 Full Ticket ICHIRO 70th TRIPLE
Product Details
MLB Mariners 5-8-2010 Ichiro Suzuki
1.0oz
New
1
Product Description
| This is an Original 100% Authentic Full Unused Season Ticket from the 2010 MLB Season May 8, 2010 Seattle Mariners vs Los Angeles Angels at Safeco Field in Seattle, WA 5/8/2010 ICHIRO SUZUKI Pictured on the ticket ICHIRO SUZUKI (Pictured on ticket) 70th MLB CAREER TRIPLE 2-HITS, 2-RBI, 1-BB, 3B "Wizard or Ichi" 10x All-Star, MVP, Rookie of the Year 10x Gold Glove, 3x Silver Slugger, 2x Batting Title AS MVP Mariners HALL of FAME in 2022 HIDEKI MATSUI 1,500th PRO CAREER RBI MILESTONE 9th JAPANESE PLAYER TO REACH 1,500 CAREER RBIs 2-HITS, 1-RBI "Godzilla" 2x All-Star, 2009 World Series, WS MVP KEN GRIFFEY JR. TAKES A NAP "Junior, The Kid or The Natural" 13x All-Star, 10x Gold Glove, 7x Silver Slugger 3x HR Derby Champion, MVP, ML POY, AS MVP Inducted into the HALL of FAME in 2016 FRANKLIN GUTIERREZ 1-RUN, 1-HIT, 2-BB, SB JOSE LOPEZ 2B MIKE SWEENEY 2B JOSH WILSON 1-HIT, SB ROB JOHNSON 1-RUN, 1-HIT ERICK AYBAR 2B BOBBY ABREU 2B TORII HUNTER 1-HIT, 2-RBI KENDRYS MORALES HR #53 JUAN RIVERA 1-HIT MIKE RYAN 1-HIT KEVIN FRANDSEN 1-RUN, 3-HITS FERNANDO RODNEY CAREER WIN #18 BRIAN FUENTES SAVE #167 Matsui reaches 1,500 career RBIs as Angels win in 10 SEATTLE -- Hideki Matsui wasn't truly excited over the chance to join Sadaharu Oh in an elite group of Japanese hitting greats. Enduring a 4-for-45 slump can do that to an aging veteran. Yet the former clutch Yankee came through again -- for himself and his new team. Matsui became the ninth Japanese player to reach 1,500 career RBIs when he singled home Bobby Abreu in the top of the 10th inning, and Brian Fuentes got his first save in two weeks as the Los Angeles Angels beat the sinking Seattle Mariners 4-3 on Saturday night. "I'm just happy. I'm certainly not at my best right now, but to be able to come through in a very important situation in the game is definitely satisfying," Matsui said through an interpreter. Matsui's single and 611th RBI in the major leagues came off David Aardsma (0-2) after Abreu doubled leading off the 10th. Seattle's closer pitched 1 1/3 innings and allowed four hits plus a walk. The Mariners lost their eighth consecutive game, all at home. Los Angeles won for the second consecutive time following seven straight losses entering this series between the struggling supposed front runners in the AL West. Matsui, 35, played 10 seasons for Yomiuri in the Japanese Central league before joining New York in 2003, then the Angels as a $6 million free agent for 2010. He just joined a list led by Oh, the leader on Japan's career RBIs list with 2,170. "You look at some of the numbers Hideki's put up in both leagues, they are eye-popping," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "They show the talent that he is." Fuentes got his first save since April 26, and fourth save in five opportunities this season. He struck out two in the bottom of the 10th. Fernando Rodney (3-0) walked three in the ninth, but escaped with the game still tied by getting Mike Sweeney to ground out on a full-count fastball at 98 mph -- with the crowd of over 30,446 standing and roaring in a hearty effort to distract him. The 36-year-old Sweeney, a five-time All-Star in perhaps his final season, sat alone and slumped over his bat in the dugout for several moments after yet another Mariners loss. "Again, it comes down to timely hitting. That's a ballgame we should win with the amount of walks they gave up," Seattle manager Don Wakamatsu said. Wakamatsu chose to keep left-hander Ken Griffey Jr., who has been struggling at .216 but is baseball's active leader in RBIs (1,777), on the bench against right-handed reliever Kevin Jepsen with runners at second and third, two outs and the game tied in the eighth. Rob Johnson, the No. 9 hitter batting .140, appeared instead. Jepsen struck out Johnson. "At some point, we can pinch-hit for everybody in this lineup, but somebody's going to have to step up and get a big hit," Wakamatsu said. Torii Hunter had one of those for the Angels, a two-run single in the fifth. And Kevin Frandsen had three hits in his Angels debut hours after a promotion from Triple-A Salt Lake. Seattle starter Doug Fister allowed three earned runs for the first time in six starts this season, on eight hits in seven innings. When Hunter's singled in the fifth, Los Angeles led 3-0. The game looked over -- given Seattle had scored nine runs in seven games on their ugly homestand. But the Mariners immediately rallied on a two-run triple by Ichiro Suzuki in the fifth and Sweeney's RBI double in the sixth off Angels starter Joe Saunders, who failed to end his career-high three-game losing streak. Saunders allowed five hits and three runs -- one earned -- with five walks in 5 2/3 innings. Ken Griffey Jr. naps during a game Ken Griffey Jr. was one of the top prospects of his generation when the Mariners drafted him with the first overall pick in 1987. He quickly made it to the majors, debuting at the start of the 1989 season, the beginning of a 22-year career. In his more than two decades in the majors, Griffey hit .284 with 630 home runs and 1,836 RBI. His homers are the seventh most in Major League Baseball history, while his RBI total ranks 16th all-time. Griffey was the American League MVP in 1997, when he hit .304 with 56 homers and 147 RBI. He was a 13-time All-Star, and he won 10 Gold Gloves and seven Silver Sluggers. Unfortunately, he only made the postseason three times in his career and never made it to the World Series. So, about that time Griffey wasn’t available to pinch-hit for the Mariners. It was May 8, 2010, his final season, when he was 40 years old. ESPN reported at the time that Griffey missed the chance to pinch-hit because he was in the clubhouse. Then-Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu was evasive when asked why he didn’t use the second-generation player in the game, but according to two unnamed teammates Griffey had fallen asleep in the clubhouse. One of the players recalled that Griffey had gone back to the clubhouse in the fifth inning to get a jacket and never returned. The player says he went back there in about the seventh inning, “and he was in his chair, sound asleep.” The second player said that Griffey wasn’t sleeping well at night, at the time, because he was away from his family, but “he’s comfortable in the clubhouse.” It was later reported by ESPN that Griffey didn’t deny taking a nap during a game, but he “lashed out at the anonymous teammates” for talking to the media instead of first going to him. RARE FULL SEASON TICKET IN MINT CONDITION!!! You get the ticket in the photos. No creases, Sharp corners, Perfect ticket!!! Ticket measures approximately 2-1/4 x 6 Inches BOX Section 119 - Row 9 - Seat 5 - $40 SEASON TICKET HOLDER SINCE 1996 Photos/Scans have been watermarked for auction purposes only. Ticket will be shipped in the Ticket Toploader (Hard Plastic Holder) shown in the photos. It will be protected and surrounded by 2 pieces of rigid cardboard and sent via USPS with tracking. For multiple ticket orders add items to cart for combined shipping. |
$18.95 inc. tax
