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
In my younger days in Seattle, I used to get rattled pretty easily; those emotions would work against me. I think over the years, I've learned how to deal with that and have them work for me.
I just don't know exactly what's going on at this point, ... It'd be one thing if my velocity wasn't there. But it's more location at this point, evidently.
I pitch and my teammates expect us to win and for me to put us in a position to win, and I didn't do that. My slider found too much of the middle of the plate. I didn't have a sharp one going down and away. Unfortunately, my pitches were elevated today, and I paid the price.
It's clear we don't have enough workers with math and science degrees and in a workforce of 140m a cap of 65,000 is way too low. The cap has filled almost immediately over the past two years.
It's been unfortunate with Jorge that he first caught the flu and then broke his nose. I've had my last five games being caught by Kelly, but whoever is back there, I'll do my best and be focused. It would have been nice to have had the body of my work caught by Jorge, so he would have had a feel for what's been going on with my pitches.
It'll be a rough night, a rough couple of days for me, ... Because I felt good.
Communication is going to be 60 percent of the job. And he has instant credibility.
Don't get in my face, ... I don't care who you are. Don't get in my face.
Don't get in my face, and don't talk back to me, all right.
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.
It took me a while to get where I'm at, simply because I'm 6-10. I appreciate where I'm at. I realize I'm blessed.
It took me a long time to really find my mechanics, ... But that's the pitcher everybody expected, and that's the pitcher I expected.
It's frustrating. We're in the heat of the pennant race, and I feel good. To pitch like that but then have one inning, that's frustrating. I was cruising along the first three innings, then you saw what happened.