PLAYERS:
Ichiro Suzuki,
Dustin Ackley,
Eric Wedge,
Kyle Seager
TEAMS: Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox
TEAMS: Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox
The Seattle Mariners spent the first one-third of the season looking to see if Ichiro Suzuki was a good fit as
the No. 3 hitter and the last few weeks giving Dustin Ackley a shot at being the leadoff man. On Friday, all of that changed. Manager Eric Wedge has installed Ichiro back as the leadoff man, the position he had for the first 11
years of his big-league career. Ackley will now bat second, where he began the season, and Kyle Seager, the
team's leader in both batting average and RBIs, will hit third. "I wanted to make that move now," Wedge said before the Mariners fell victim to the Chicago White Sox's
ninth consecutive win, a 7-4 decision born out of three unearned runs in the eighth that broke the game
open. "We're a couple of months into the season. I want to put Ichiro in the best position to succeed. "I think to get him back to (batting) leadoff, where he's had the most experience and is the most
comfortable, that'...
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