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
If I would have paid for a ticket to watch myself, I would have booed myself too.
I was able to get my pitches in and didn't have to extend myself, which is nice. I was just glad that it didn't get postponed. I warmed up and I warmed up good.
Have you guys seen anything like it? ... It's frustrating.
I want to pitch the way everyone expects me to pitch. And when I don't pitch that way, I get upset.
Last year was a good learning process. I learned a lot about what I need to adjust to this coming year. That's why I'm coming into this year feeling a lot more relaxed.
I gave up a lot of singles, and it seemed like they always had guys on base. This was a good pitchers' duel tonight with Santana.
You've got to make your pitches, no matter who you're facing. I did not execute my pitches and paid the price.
That's the pitcher that everybody expected and the pitcher that I expected. It's taken me awhile to find my mechanics.
He did something that Joe would say, 'That's Bernie being Bernie,'
If you're worried about what happened last year, I mean I suppose there's certain things you could take from last year that will help you this year. I think you've got to put everything aside from last year. This is a new year.
He saw a lot of things that sometimes you don't see when you're a pitcher out there, and that's mechanics.
At this point, being 41 years old, it's just a few little keys here and there. It's hard to get to know somebody; he doesn't know me, either. It's kind of hard to evaluate his input.
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.