Randy Johnson
Randy Johnson
Randall David "Randy" Johnson, nicknamed "The Big Unit", is an American former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1988 to 2009 for six teams, primarily the Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks. His 303 career victories rank as the fifth-most by a lefthander in major league history, while his 4,875 strikeouts place him second all-time behind Nolan Ryan and are the most by a lefthander. He holds five of the seven highest single-season strikeout totals by a lefthander...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth10 September 1963
CityWalnut Creek, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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Throwing 95 (mph) is a luxury for me now. I'd much rather be efficient when I go out there.
What's impressive is their starting pitching. You give up three runs to a team like ours, that's impressive. Obviously they've played us well, but they've played other teams well.
Tonight's game was the most emotional one I've had in a long time, ... I don't get worked up about who I'm up against -- I think it's just being here in Seattle. This was where I got the opportunity to throw every five days.
Tonight I really felt comfortable on the mound, ... I felt like everything was there. I was hitting my spots, and that's the biggest thing.
This whole thing has been compressed. We're doing the best we can in a bad situation.
To say our offense won't come around is like saying the sun won't come up tomorrow.
You can't do that. This is a pennant race game. ... This is a disgrace. This is disgraceful.
Obviously, it's a nice honor, but there's a lot of work between now and then.
It's not something that's like a switch on my back, like I'm the Energizer bunny, like there's a switch I can turn on and turn off,
That's probably more than I wanted to throw in four innings. But the velocity on my fastball increased, and that's a good sign. My mechanics were a little better, too.
It was nice to be able to get out of there and not have to go seven, eight, nine innings and throw all those pitches,
It was pretty anti-climactic. From this point out, now it's for real. The adrenaline will be a little different than it was today.
It was probably one of the strangest seasons I've ever had. The statistics say I didn't struggle. But my standards are different than everybody else's. That has been the case for a long time.