Mauer poised to make hitting history
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Minnesota's Joe Mauer learned this summer just how hard it is for a catcher to maintain consistently high offensive production when your primary job is behind the plate.
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Chipper Jones will have to settle for having his name alongside Paul Waner&#039;s in the baseball record book.
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Ichiro Suzuki, baseball&#39;s sang-froid player, is racing to shatter an elusive record for hits in a single season, aiming to bring glory to himself, the Seattle Mariners and his country Japan.
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When Ichiro Suzuki is batting, he is a walking, swinging nightmare for pitchers. He is batting .353 with 6 homers, 58 runs batted in and 37 stolen bases before Tuesday nightâs game.
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Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners broke Major League Baseball&#39;s single-season hit record with singles in his first two at-bats in tonight&#39;s 8-3 win over the Texas Rangers.
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American League batting champion Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins agreed a four-year $33 million deal with the club on Sunday.
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The top four hitters in the Sox lineup last night - Dustin Pedroia , Kevin Youkilis , David Ortiz , and Manny Ram&#xED;rez - combined to go 7 for 14 with 4 runs, 6 RBIs, and 4 extra-base hits (doubles by Pedroia and Ram&#xED;rez and a triple and home run by Youkilis).
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Seattle&#39;s Ichiro Suzuki breaks the 84-year-old MLB record for most hits in a season. Seattle&#39;s Ichiro Suzuki (left) is greeted by Frances Sisler Drochelman, George Sisler&#39;s daughter, after Suzuki broke Sisler&#39;s 1920 single-season record of 257 hits.
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AL batting champion Joe Mauer and the Minnesota Twins agreed Sunday to a four-year contract worth at least $33 million, avoiding salary arbitration and ensuring one of the team's young stars will be in uniform for the long term.
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Rookie Bobby Crosby sent the Athletics into the last weekend of 2004 with the biggest hit of Oakland&#39;s season. Suzuki got his 256th hit yesterday to move within one of George Sisler&#39;s record, but Crosby homered
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Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners broke Major League Baseball&#39;s single-season hit record with two singles against the Texas Rangers.
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Ichiro, with 914 hits since his rookie year in 2001, is currently on pace to set the record for most hits over any four-year span in the majors.
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Sidney Ponson is about to get another chance, this time with the New York Yankees.
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The Seattle Mariners&#39; Ichiro Suzuki has broken one of baseball&#39;s oldest hitting records - most base hits in a season, set 84 years ago by Hall of Famer George Sisler.
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He&#39;s poised to rack up most hits in a season. Other marks look vulnerable, too. By Erik Spanberg | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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SEATTLE - Ichiro Suzuki set the major league record for hits in a season with 258, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old mark with a pair of singles Friday night.    The Seattle star chopped a leadoff single in the first inning, then made history with a grounder up the middle in the third...
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Alex Rodriguez, the reigning American League most valuable player, will bat eighth today. Jason Giambi moves to the bench and Melky Cabrera will occupy left field.