In maybe the most Ichiro way possible, he tied Pete Rose’s all-time hits record.

実にイチロー選手らしい歴史的なヒットでした。まずは速報のみで失礼します。（lua）

Ichiro ties Pete Rose's hits record with an infield single

Let the debate about the true Hit King of baseball rage on, as Ichiro Suzuki has officially tied Pete Rose with his 4,256 career hit. In maybe the most Ichiro fashion possible, that hit came on an infield single

The first 1,278 of Ichiro’s career hits came while playing in the Nippon Professional Baseball league in Japan — he didn’t get his start in Major League Baseball until 2001 when he was already 27 years old. Now, 2,978 hits in MLB later, he’s tied with Rose for the most all-time if you count those NPB knocks.

And why shouldn’t you? The above tweet recognizing the feat came from MLB’s own account. Baseball is a global sport, only gaining popularity worldwide by the day, and there isn’t a better ambassador for that out there than Ichiro Suzuki. Rose is MLB’s official hit leader, sure, and that's not being taken away from him, but baseball as a whole? All hail Ichiro and his 4,256 hits ... and counting. A manufactured controversy? Maybe! But we're all-in just the same.

Whether you agree with that or not, Ichiro has a whole lot of hits, and is now just 22 shy of becoming the 30th player in the history of MLB with 3,000 for his career. Given that age-27 start, that should have been nigh impossible. This is Ichiro we’re talking about, though. He’s 42 years old and hasn’t figured out what impossible means yet.

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/6/15/11948564/ichiro-suzuki-pete-rose-hits-record