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.
You've got to make your pitches, no matter who you're facing. I did not execute my pitches and paid the price.
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 was nice to be able to get out of there and not have to go seven, eight, nine innings and throw all those pitches,
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.
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.
I think Whirlpool has the synergies to be able to pull this off. Maytag is not going to make it by themselves, and nobody does the laundry business better than Whirlpool.
I was counting on myself to go out and pitch a quality ballgame, ... Hopefully I'll have another chance to redeem myself.
I feel pretty good overall. When I'm out there throwing batting practice, it's just what it is, batting practice. To work on my pitches and trying to get something out of it a little bit as far as some intensity.
Nobody's more disappointed in the clubhouse than me right now,
I think the pieces are starting falling into place now which is good because you've got a month and a half left, so every game is important,
I felt the camera incident was a bad start. I wanted to make a good first impression. From that point on I was kinda walking on eggshells (with the media). I made myself accessible but I didn't feel as if I had a whole lot of breathing room after I made a major mistake.
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.