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Ichiro blasts a home run that smashes a high school’s window in Japan

MLB legend Ichiro Suzuki cranked a home run more than 400 feet and straight into a high school while speaking to students in Japan.

In 2007, Ichiro Suzuki was asked how many home runs he could hit if he tried to swing for just power. The two-time batting champion, who averaged about 10 home runs per year through that point in the MLB, answered with a shocking figure:

“If I’m allowed to hit .220, I could probably hit 40.”

He never tried because from 2007-19 he only eclipsed the 10 home run mark once. On occasion, during batting practice, fans would see a show of Ichiro cranking the ball over the wall, but it never happened in games. That estimation of quadrupling his average must have been an exaggeration.

Or was it?

At the age of 50, Ichiro hit a home run that smashed through a high school window in Japan. According to MLB.com, the dinger traveled 426 feet, and Ichiro had a wholesome reaction. Video below:

Ichiro was running through basic drills with the students at Asahikawa Higashi High School in Hokkaido, Japan, when he went yard. According to MLB.com, he hit about 63 pitches and twice cleared a 26-foot-high netting around the building.

Ichiro led the league in total hits seven times and holds two of the top-10 single-season records for hits — including No. 1 overall with 262 in 2004 — but even in his prime, fans didn’t get to experience this. A 26-foot high wall wasn’t enough to stop his ball from traveling well over 400 feet.

50-year-old Ichiro Suzuki had a priceless reaction to shattering someone’s window with a HR

He’s still got it!

Ichiro Suzuki is objectively one of the best pure hitters MLB has ever seen. He has 10 200-hit seasons, and he’s a member of the 3,000-hit club. But at age 50, he did something he had never pulled off during his big-league career.

He shattered a window with a home run.

Back in Japan, Ichiro took some batting practice in front of a local baseball team, and one unsuspecting person ended up getting themselves a souvenir through their apartment or classroom window.

Obviously, that’s super impressive. The man is 50 years old and still hitting monster home runs. But his reaction was probably the best part. The moment that ball shattered the glass, he looked like a kid who had just thrown a baseball through their parents’ window.

Hey, someone should have thought about that before building apartments/schools and a baseball field so close to one another. That was bound to happen.

Shohei Ohtani was so adorably excited to see Ichiro before a Mariners-Angels game

This is so pure

There are few things in baseball more beautiful than the friendship between Shohei Ohtani and Ichiro Suzuki.

Ohtani has long talked about his love for the retired Mariners legend and has been starstruck by him on several occasions. And it still never gets old. The two Japanese baseball icons had a chance to meet again on Monday night with the Angels playing in Seattle.

As soon as Ohtani spotted his hero across the stadium he took off running to pay his respects.

It’s the way Ohtani just immediately drops everything and turns back into a kid that makes this moment so wholesome.

Honestly, it deserves a closer look.

Basically anytime these two share the field together the public gets another adorable moment.

Baseball is the best.