Maybe it’s an exaggerated recollection, because ballplayers have been known to weave tapestries out of tall tales. But Jon Lester claims that somewhere among the more than 30,000 pitches he’s thrown in his time in the big leagues was a curveball that bounced in the Seattle dirt — “It barely reached the cut of the grass,” Lester said — and then into the bat of one Ichiro Suzuki, who turned the bouncer into one of his now 3,000 base hits.