Seattle Mariners’ legends Ichiro Suzuki and Edgar Martinez currently occupy the No. 2 spot on an impressive list in baseball history, but current New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe are gaining on them.

With a teammate on-base streak of 32 games, the Yankees’ duo is just three away from tying Martinez and Ichiro, who each reached base in 35 straight games back in 2001.

Per Sarah Langs of MLB.com:

most consecutive games reaching base safely, teammates in games played together (Expansion Era, 1961):

1998 Cal Ripken, Eric Davis: 36
2001 Ichiro Suzuki, Edgar Martinez: 35
2003 Andruw Jones, Rafael Furcal: 34
2024 Anthony Volpe, Aaron Judge: 32 *active
1988 Mike Greenwell, Wade Boggs: 32

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That streak by Ichiro and Edgar was just another great part of the 2001 Mariners’ season, which was the most successful regular season in team history. The M’s won 116 games that year, which is also tied for the most in baseball history.

In that year, Martinez hit .306 with 23 homers and 116 RBI. He was an All-Star who also posted a .423 on-base percentage. For his career, Martinez was a seven-time All-Star, a two-time batting champion and a five-time Silver Slugger. He hit .312 lifetime and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2019.

As for Ichiro, he’s going to be headed to the Hall of Fame when first eligible in 2025. A 19-year veteran of the major leagues (plus his time in Japan), he hit .311 for his American career. He spent 14 years with the M’s, winning Rookie of the Year and MVP in 2001. He was a 10-time All-Star, a 10-time Gold Glover and a two-time batting champion. He hit .350 in that 2001 season.

The Yankees will have a chance to try to move closer to the M’s icons on Friday when they play the Dodgers.

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• The James Beard Foundation has bestowed awards since 1991, except in 2020 and 2021 when the organization scrapped them as the restaurant industry was reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The most-anticipated categories include awards for outstanding restaurateur, chef and restaurant. This year’s winners will be announced at a ceremony in Chicago set for June 10.
• The James Beard Foundation has revamped their awards after receiving criticism for a lack of racial diversity and allegations about some nominees’ behavior.

An East African eatery in Detroit, longtime family owned Seattle pho shops and a Palestinian chef using ancient cooking techniques in Washington, D.C., are among the dozens of finalists for this year’s prestigious James Beard Awards.

The culinary world’s equivalent of the Oscars will recognize restaurants and chefs in 22 categories at a ceremony set for Monday in Chicago.

The nominees cover a diverse range of cuisine and chef experience, a recent shift following turbulent, pandemic-era years for the James Beard Foundation. The most-anticipated categories include awards for outstanding restaurateur, chef and restaurant.

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Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere, who fled Burundi about a decade ago and now own Baobab Fare in Detroit, are among five finalists in the outstanding restaurateur category. The couple faced a difficult road as refugees opening a business in the U.S.

Their restaurant’s menu features kuku, pan-fried chicken in a tangy mustard-onion sauce that’s served with fried plantains, stewed yellow beans and coconut rice.

“We inspire a lot of refugees — refugees who are coming to this country without hope and one day thinking that they can win this kind of title,” Mamba said. “It’s a big deal for us, because we want to show people that this world can be equal.”

The James Beard Foundation has bestowed awards since 1991, except in 2020 and 2021 when the organization scrapped them as the restaurant industry was reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and experiencing criticism over a lack of racial diversity and allegations about some nominees’ behavior. Foundation officials vowed to improve ethical standards and be more “reflective of the industry.”

Restaurants apply for the awards. Judges, who mostly remain anonymous, try the cuisine before voting. Nominees are reviewed for the food as well as for a behavioral “code of ethics,” including how employees are treated.

“We are looking at the whole plate,” said Tanya Holland, chair of the awards committee.

For restaurants, just being a finalist can bring wide recognition and boost business. Restaurant awards have become less common in recent years, giving the James Beard Awards even more weight, said Paul Freedman, a Yale University professor whose expertise includes food history.

“It really calls attention to restaurants that might not be all that well known outside their region,” he said.

A Seattle family credited with bringing the first pho shop to the city in the 1980s is also a finalist for outstanding restaurateur with a trio of pho restaurants and their chicken and rice shop called The Boat.

Yenvy Pham, whose parents opened their first restaurant after immigrating from Vietnam, calls a bowl of their pho, with its beefy bone broth and anise and clove aromatics, a “sure thing.” They make the soup fresh every day over 24 hours.

“It’s wild,” she said. “It’s a great honor.”

The other restaurateur finalists are Chris Viaud with three restaurants in New Hampshire, Hollis Wells Silverman with the Eastern Point Collective that runs several Washington, D.C., restaurants, and Erika and Kelly Whitaker for restaurants in Boulder, Colorado.

Some finalists are already lauded, including Michael Rafidi, whose Washington, D.C., restaurant Albi was awarded a coveted Michelin Star in 2022. He is among five finalists for outstanding chef.

Albi, which is Arabic for “my heart,” pays homage to Rafidi’s Palestinian roots by using Old World food preparation techniques. Everything is cooked over charcoal, including grape leaves stuffed with lamb and sfeeha, a meat pie.

“There’s a mission for me to continue to spread light and cook Palestinian food,” he said.

Another finalist for outstanding chief is David Uygur, who runs a tiny Italian restaurant in Dallas. Lucia features fresh pasta made in house and a popular cured meat board. The menu changes seasonally.

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Uygur, whose father is Turkish, became interested in Italian food because of love. His high school sweetheart, now wife, loved Italian cuisine. He sought a feeling of intimacy in his restaurant with just nine tables.

“I wanted the restaurant to feel like someone was coming to eat our house,” he said. “I wanted our guests in our home.”

Other outstanding chef finalists include Sarah Minnick for Lovely’s Fifty Fifty in Portland, Oregon, Dean Neff of Seabird in Wilmington, North Carolina, and Renee Touponce for The Port of Call in Mystic, Connecticut.

SEATTLE (AP) — A 17-year-old student was fatally shot in the parking lot of a Seattle high school during lunchtime Thursday, officials said.

Seattle Public Schools said in a statement that the Garfield High student was taken to Harborview Medical Center. Police said later that he underwent surgery at the hospital but died.

Around 12:45 p.m. police said on the social platform X that officers were investigating a shooting at an address matching that of the high school. Officers found the student with multiple gunshot wounds.

Garfield was temporarily placed in lockdown, and two nearby schools were ordered to shelter in place, officials said.

Detectives learned that before the shooting, the 17-year-old tried to break up an altercation between the shooting suspect and another person. After walking away, the suspect approached the 17-year-old and shot him, Deputy Chief Eric Barden told The Seattle Times.

The suspect, said to be male and of high school age, fled and has not been located, police said. It was not clear if he is also a student at Garfield.

The school is east of downtown in Seattle’s Central District. In March a student was shot in the leg outside the school while she waited at a bus stop, the Times reported.

“I can’t use the word ‘trauma’ enough to describe what our children are going through,” Mayor Bruce Harrell said at a news conference. “Our kids deserve better.”

Sue Rahr, the city’s interim police chief, said her department would redouble efforts in the community to try to help students and residents feel safe.

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