Ichiro, Yankees walk-off against Rangers

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Hiroki Kuroda pitches against the Rangers on June 25th. (Getty Images)

With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, Ichiro Suzuki done something that he has only done one other time in his career: hit a walk-off home run. The only other time he hit a walk-off home run was against Mariano River, yes Mariano, in 2009. In the Yankees 4-3 win over the Rangers, the Yankees hit four solo home runs to defeat the Rangers. Hiroki Kuroda started for the Yankees and he faced fellow Japanese native, Yu Darvish.

Kuroda allowed three runs, two earned, on five hits in six and two third innings of work. He struck out six and walked one. He finished his outing with 99 pitches thrown, in which 65 of them were for strikes. 

The Yankee offense came via the home run ball tonight as four Yankees went deep. Travis Hafner hit the first home run in the fourth inning to make it a 2-1 game. Brett Gardner would add a home run of his own in the fifth inning, which at the time made it a 3-2 game. The Yankees would tie the game at three in the sixth inning on a Jayson Nix solo home run. Neither team would score until the bottom half of the ninth inning when Ichiro Suzuki hit a line drive home run to right field to win the game. 

Mariano Rivera picked up his first win tonight, which evened his record to 1-1 out of the bullpen. 

The Yankees and Rangers will continue their three-game set tomorrow night.