THT Poetry: ICHIRO! Splits

What better way to highlight a trend in one of Ichiro Suzuki’s splits …

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… than with a split haiku:

ICHIRO! Splits
By Ed DeCaria

I
Can No Longer
Hit
Inside Pitches Thrown By
Righties
OR Lefties
!

© 2012 Ed DeCaria, All Rights Reserved

What is a split haiku? I just made it up. It’s the familiar 5-7-5 syllable count for haiku, but each of the three lines is split visually into two to form the I-C-H-I-R-O-! acrostic.

Data for both graphs comes from the PITCHf/x Hitter Profile for Ichiro Suzuki (2007-2012) at Baseball Prospectus as reported on 7/27/12.


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Todd
11 years ago

Epic!

John
11 years ago

Ichiro must have read your blog today, because he turned on an inside pitch tonight and blasted it off the face of the second deck in right field.

Ed DeCaria
11 years ago

@Todd: Ambiguous!

Rena
11 years ago

Cool. I will have to try this.

Jake
8 years ago

So good!!