It’s not the recognized major league record, but Ichiro Suzuki has become profe sional baseball’s international hits king.Suzuki entered Wednesday afternoon’s game in San Diegoneeding just one hitto tiePete Rose’s all-time record of 4,256. He got that hit with an infield single off Padres pitcher Luis Perdomo leading off the game at Petco Park.#Padres salute #Ichiro for career hit #4,256 between Japan (1,278) and #MLB (2,978). #Marlins pic.twitter.com/ Michael Pineda Jersey KcjnvtXABR Glenn Geffner (@GlennGeffner) June 15, 2016 FOSTER: Sorry, Ichiro is king of nothing Suzuki did not reach base in his next three at-bats, but slapped a two-out double to right field off Fernando Rodney in the top of the ninth inning for hit No. 4,257 of his profe sional career.#ICHIRO !With profe sional hit 4,257 (MLB + Japan), Max Kepler Jersey he unofficially becomes baseball’s all-time hits leader! pic.twitter.com/1G0aiDmRyw #VoteMarlins (@Marlins) June 15, 2016 Suzuki now has 2,979hits in themajor leagues to go with his 1,278 hits in theNippon Profe sional Baseball Leaguein Japan. Rose told USA Today this week he thinks Japanese baseball isn’t „equivalent“ to MLB and numbers compiled there shouldn’t be recognized as such.Suzuki spent nine seasons with theOrix BlueWave before making his MLB debut in 2001 with the Mariners. Now that he has „surpa sed“Rose, the next milestone in the 42-year-old’s Hall of Fame career will be his Jason Castro Jersey 3,000th MLB hit. That’s an achievement MLB, and even Rose, will be sure to recognize.