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Randy Johnson (center) pitches tonight, Tim Lincecum (right and left) will not pitch in the series.
A victory would put Randy at 299 career wins, one short of becoming only the twenty-fifth pitcher in history to reach 300. If it wasn’t for a terrible Mariner bullpen in the late nineties, he could be going for win number 400.
Randy will probably go into the Hall of Fame wearing a Diamondback hat, and that’s okay; we got to watch him develop in the early nineties, become a dominating force from 1993 on, and pitch his brains out during the miracle run of 1995.
He won five Cy Young awards (including 1995, the Mariners' only winner), is second all-time in strike outs (behind Nolan Ryan, the man who may have saved his career), made ten All-Star teams (he was one of the starters for Safeco’s 2001 game), was a World Series MVP, and played himself on The Simpsons.
Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci has a great article on his career, Art Thiel uses the return to depress us all, and Larry Stone looks back at Randy’s time with Griffey. If Junior plays, his first at bat will be an electric senior moment.
The thing we remember best about Randy, besides all the Mr. Snappy signs that greeted us when we entered the Kingdome for Game 3 of the 1995 ALDS and him walking down to the bullpen late in Game 5, was the shock felt in stadiums whenever someone went yard on him. There was also a feeling of disappointment whenever the opponent got their first hit.
We’ll be there tonight with our dad, just like we were the first time we remember seeing him pitch in person, a no-hitter in June of 1990.
His next appearance at Safeco will be in a few years when the number 51 will be retired, for the first time.
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