When baseball fans think of Randy Johnson, they usually think of the Seattle Mariners or the Arizona Diamondbacks. Many MLB fans forget him pitching for the Houston Astros. In the middle of the 1998 Major League Baseball season, the Astros traded for “
The Big Unit from the Seattle Mariners, and he went on dominant starting pitcher stretches the sport has ever seen.
Randy Johnson only made 11 starts for Houston, but in those 11 games, he had a 10-1 record with a 1.28 ERA and 116 strikeouts in 84.1 innings pitched. Hitters across the National League had absolutely no answers. At 6-foot-10 with a devastating fastball and one of the nastiest sliders in baseball history, Johnson completely overwhelmed opposing lineups and helped turn the Houston Astros into a legitimate World Series threat.
Randy Johnson would go on to win four consecutive Cy Young Awards from 1999 through 2002, dominate with the Arizona Diamondbacks, and cement himself as one of the greatest pitchers in MLB history, eve...
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