Although Ken Griffey Jr. has had his ups and downs during his return to the Seattle Mariners, he came up big on Saturday. In the eighth inning, hit a double to knock in Ichiro. That hit gave the Mariners a 2-1 lead that they would prove to be enough to beat the Minnesota Twins.
Griffey, who was batting cleanup, is now hitting .224 on the season with six homers and 16 RBI. He’s also scored 16 runs and has an on-base percentage of .335.
Ichiro, a day after his 27-game hitting streak came to an end, was also a hero. He went …read more

A laurel *hands virtual flowers* and hearty handshake—get it, Laurel and Hardy? Yay for Blazing Saddles jokes!—to Ken Griffey Jr. of the Cincinnati Reds. It’s not every day a guy hits his 600th homer.
Griffey’s history-making moment (1m, 9s) as the sixth MLB player to reach 600 HRs came against the Florida Marlins, whose Miami stadium is (as usual) half-empty.