There was just one home run.

June 14, 2010. Mariners at Cardinals. We'll let Wainwright take it from here.

"They had told me that he had big power, but I'm not sure I believed them," Wainwright said Thursday. "You didn't really see it come out in games very often. But every now and then, he would pop one. Second pitch of the game, he led off with a 435-foot home run off me. I thought, OK, this guy is going to try to go (for power) on me the whole time. Well, the next at-bat, he flipped a little double over the third baseman, a little spinner that hit the line, then kicked left."

Wainwright held up his hands, modeling Ichiro's iconic batting stance.

"He covered line to line," Wainwright said. "There was not one way to get him. You had to pitch him up and in to keep him honest, but if you didn't execute something perfect after that? His hands, you would think, running out of the box the way he was, that he wouldn't be able to cover the third-base side of the plate, but he still would keep his hands back and slice that ball down the left-field line whenever he wanted."

Including Tommy Layne, who is with the Cardinals on a minor league deal, a total of 10 Cardinals currently in the clubhouse faced Ichiro in the majors.