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Outfield collision lands Ichiro in training room for first time in MLB career

They saved the sterile glove trainers used to treat Ichiro Suzuki. They photographed the Japanese baseball legend sitting on the training table.

And why not?

On what was an otherwise routine day of spring training for the Marlins, history was made when the 43-year-old Suzuki required treatment for an injury for the first time in his long and illustrious career.

Suzuki bruised his right knee and tweaked his lower back in an outfield collision with Brandon Barnes.

“This was the first time going into a trainer’s room for me, so that was a little different,” Suzuki said afterward.