Jun22016
Johnson plaque
One of Randy Johnson's no-no balls in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

One of Randy Johnson’s no-no balls in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Randy Johnson threw the first of his two no-hitters, 26 years ago today.

On Saturday, June 2, 1990, “The Big Unit” no-hit Detroit as his Seattle Mariners topped the Tigers 2-0 at the Kingdome. It was the Mariners’ first no-hitter.

Fourteen years later, a 40-year-old Johnson retired all of the 27 Atlanta Braves batters he faced at Turner Field to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 2-0 perfect-game win.

The perfecto gave Johnson the distinction of being the oldest pitcher to throw a perfect game, and he is the only pitcher to throw two franchises’ first no-hitters.

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Author: Dirk Lammers

Dirk Lammers is a veteran journalist who began rooting for the New York Mets in the early-1970s when the team’s no no-hitter count was barely 2,000 games old. Lammers has since turned his research into Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats (Unbridled Books) and NoNoHitters.com, where he maintains the Internet's largest archive of no-hitter information.

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