Randy Johnson won 303 games, five Cy Young Awards, struck out 4,875 batters (second all time) and was recently inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Needless to say, the Big Unit knows his way around a mound.
On Tuesday night in Chiba, Johnson, who is in Japan with other Arizona Diamondbacks representatives as part of the team's goodwill trip, got a look at the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' Shohei Otani. The Fighters' young right-hander gave his famous spectator a show, striking out 12 in a six-hit shutout against the Chiba Lotte Marines.
Johnson seemed to like what he saw.
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