Ichiro Suzuki isn't quite as hot as his right field counterpart in this series, Dodgers phenom Yasiel Puig. But Suzuki is on a terrific run himself.
"At the plate, in the field," Yankees catcher Chris Stewart said of Suzuki's performance in yesterday's 6-4 Game 1
Yankees victory in The Bronx. "[He] did it all."
Suzuki ranked as the Yankees' best player in the early game. He racked up three hits, drilled a solo homer, slapped a two-run single and robbed Adrian Gonzalez of extra bases with a magnificent leaping catch.
Although he went 0-for-3 in the 6-0 nightcap loss, Suzuki is raking in his last seven games, batting .400 (10-for-25) and collecting four multi-hit games. For the season, the 39-year-old still has just a .665 OPS — well below league average. But this has been a welcome surge.
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Ichiro Suzuki leaps to make a catch at the wall in the eighth inning during the first game of yesterday's doubleheader.
"I haven't changed anything," he said. "I haven't done anything different."
The Yankees' offense is an injury-ravaged disaster, so a Suzuki spurt would be enormous.
"He has the ability, as we've talked about, to get really, really hot," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said yesterday.
After arriving in a trade from Seattle last July, Suzuki posted just a .714 OPS in his first 51 games with the team. But in the remaining 16 games of the regular season, he exploded, delivering a staggering .969 OPS.
Asked yesterday whether he could sense if he's about to embark on a hot streak, Suzuki replied, "I have no idea. Maybe you could ask a fortune teller."
Suzuki was out-dazzled yesterday by Puig, the remarkable Cuban rookie who produced four hits, a homer, a bunt single and a stolen base, ran the bases as if he were Rickey Henderson and nearly threw out Thomas Neal at first base on a single — from right field.
But Suzuki did his part to match in the opener. He singled and scored a run in the second inning, then smacked a fastball from Hyun-Jin Ryu over the right-field wall in the sixth for a 3-0 Yankees lead — his first homer in 116 at-bats.
Suzuki dumped a bases-loaded two-run single to left in the seventh inning to make it 6-2. And in the eighth, he leaped at the wall to snare Gonzalez's drive, slamming into the fence and handing the Yankees a big out.
"He was huge today," Lyle Overbay said.
The strong stretch continues for the formerly struggling former star. Suzuki is scorching.
mark.hale@nypost.com
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