Chicago \u2013 Chicago Cubs slugger Seiya Suzuki smashed his 100th home run of his U.S. Major League Baseball career on Wednesday, becoming the fourth Japanese player to achieve the mark.<\/p>\n
The milestone home run, which came during Wednesday\u2019s game against the San Diego Padres, put Suzuki alongside Hideki Matsui, Ichiro Suzuki and Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n
The only right-handed hitter among the four, Suzuki, now in his fifth MLB season with the Cubs, described the achievement as a significant milestone. \u201cOne hundred home runs is a nice accomplishment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been a tough journey to get here,\u201d Suzuki said. \u201cMy teammates and everyone around me supported me and created an environment where I could focus on baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope this achievement inspires other players to try playing in the MLB,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope that people follow in my footsteps.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago \u2013 Chicago Cubs slugger Seiya Suzuki smashed his 100th home run of his U.S. Major League Baseball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5158,591,14536,85],"class_list":["post-776522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-mlb","tag-seiya-suzuki","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}