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- Updated: July 22, 2016
10:57 PM ET
PHILADELPHIA — Tom Koehler pitched eight strong innings, Ichiro Suzuki moved within four hits of reaching 3,000 for his major league career and the Miami Marlins pounded out 16 hits in a 9-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday night.
Christian Yelich homered for the Marlins, who won three of four over the Phillies to cap a seven-game road trip 5-2. Miami moved 1 1/2 games ahead of the idle Mets for the second wild-card spot in the National League. The Marlins return to Miami for an important 10-game homestand that begins on Friday night against the Mets.
Ryan Howard and Freddy Galvis homered for Philadelphia, which has dropped four of five.
Editor’s PicksThe many phases of Ichiro Suzuki
At 42, Ichiro is hitting nearly .350. He passed Pete Rose (sort of) as the hit king and is on the verge of 3,000 MLB hits. How did he get here? The only way to know is to watch him work.
Suzuki hit an infield single in the third and a solid single to right-center in the eighth to bring his major league total to 2,996. He is vying to become the 30th player all-time to reach 3,000 hits.
In addition to his career total hits in MLB, Suzuki had 1,278 hits in nine seasons in his native …
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