» May 18, 2001: The Yanks stop Seattle's 8-game win streak, winning, 14–10. Ex-Mariner Tino Martinez is 4-for-5 with a homer and four ribbies. John Halama is the loser with seven runs in three IP. Ichiro Suzuki is 3-for-6 with two steals to extend his hitting streak to 23 games.

» May 19, 2001: Both Ichiro Suzuki's and Marty Cordova's hit streaks end. The Yankees defeat the Mariners, 2-1, ending Ichiro's 23-game hitting streak, It was the fifth longest hit streak recorded by a "true" rookie.

» July 13, 2001: Ichiro Suzuki and Kazuhiro Sasaki announce a boycott of member of the Japanese press, who have been hounding them all season.

» July 16, 2001: Ichiro Suzuki and Kazuhiro Sasaki call off their boycott of the Japanese press.

» August 19, 2001: The Mariners rout the Yankees, 10–2, as OF Mike Cameron gets four hits—including two home runs—and drives home eight runs. OF Ichiro Suzuki stretches his hitting streak to 16 games, giving him three streaks of 15 or more games this year. He's the 1st major leaguer with three 15–game streaks in the same season since Milwaukee's Cecil Cooper in 1980.

» August 26, 2001: The Indians edge the Mariners, 4–3, ending Ichiro Suzuki's 21–game hitting streak.

» August 28, 2001: Seattle OF Ichiro Suzuki reaches 200 hits for the season as the Mariners fall to the Devil Rays, 6–0. By going 2–for–3, Suzuki becomes only the 3rd AL rookie to reach 200 hits since 1964. KC's Kevin Seitzer reached the mark in 1987 and Boston's Nomar Garciaparra ten years later.

» September 28, 2001: In the Mariners' 5–3 win over the A's, Ichiro Suzuki has infield hits in his first two at bats to tie Shoeless Joe Jackson's rookie hits record of 233. Before the game, Mariners starting SS Carlos Guillen is hospitalized after being diagnosed with pulminary tuberculosis. He'll make it back for the ALCS.

» September 29, 2001: The A's defeat the Mariners, 8–4, as SS Miguel Tejada hits for the cycle, capping his night with a 7th–inning grand slam. Seattle OF Ichiro Suzuki gets his 234th hit of the season to set a new ML rookie record. The previous mark had been set by Shoeless Joe Jackson in 1911. Suzuki also ties the AL record for singles in a season (187) with the hit. Wade Boggs performed the feat in 1985.

» October 15, 2001: The Mariners advance to the ALCS with a 3-1 win over Cleveland in the deciding game of their Division Series. Ichiro Suzuki gets three hits for Seattle, Mark McLemore drives home two runs, and Jamie Moyer gets the win.

» November 12, 2001: Cardinals' 3B Albert Pujols is the unanimous choice for NL Rookie of the Year. In the AL, Ichiro Suzuki takes rookie honors.

» November 20, 2001: Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners is named the AL Most Valuable Player. He becomes the second player in history to win both the Rookie of the Year and MVP honors in the same season.

» May 2, 2002: The Mariners rout the White Sox by a score of 15–4 as OF Mike Cameron becomes the 13th player in ML history to slug four home runs in a single game, all solo shots. Cameron is also hit by a pitch and flies out to deep right in a bid for a 5th homer. Cameron and 2B Bret Boone also become the first teammates in history to hit back–to–back home runs twice in the same inning, performing the feat in Seattle's 10–run 1st inning. The duo waste little time putting their names into the record book. After Ichiro Suzuki is hit by a pitch leading off, Boone homers. Cameron follows with a drive off Jon Rauch that barely cleared the center–field wall and a leaping Kenny Lofton. Two outs later, Boone again homers on the first pitch, this time off reliever Jim Parque. Cameron goes to a full count, then homers to center again. The Mariners also tie a team record with seven homers in the game. James Baldwin is the easy winner, with seven innings pitched. There had only been 39 previous occasions of a player hitting two home runs in an inning, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Eric Karros was last to do it, on August 22, 2000, for Los Angeles. Mark McGwire was the previous American League player to do it, on September 22, 1996, for Oakland.

» November 13, 2002: The American League Gold Glove winners are announced. Three Mariners -- Bret Boone, John Olerud, and Ichiro Suzuki -- take awards.