Overview
- At T-Mobile Park on Friday, the Mariners revealed a bronze Ichiro Suzuki statue and the bat snapped at the handle as the tarp was pulled away.
- Ichiro laughed and joked that Mariano Rivera had broken it, while Ken Griffey Jr. quipped that he was not to blame.
- The club reattached the bat within about an hour and fans soon posed for photos with the fixed piece.
- The Mariners leaned into the moment on social media by joking that the night’s replica statue giveaway had been “updated” to show a broken bat.
- Sculptor Lou Cella created the work after consulting with Ichiro, adding it to statues of Griffey and Edgar Martinez as part of honors that followed his 2025 Hall of Fame induction and the retirement of his No. 51.