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Article: JOHNSON COMEBACK SUDDENLY ADDS TOUGHER PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION.(Sports)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 12, 1997
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That was no ``Mr. Snappy,'' a pitch thrown to intimidate a batter.
What Randy Johnson threw during a too-brief Cactus League appearance against the San Francisco Giants yesterday was a succession of near-perfect pitches. At least until the last one missed high and inside - with horrific consequences.
One of his fastballs hit J.T. Snow in the side of the face, dropping him at the plate like a broken clay skeet and sending him to the hospital.
Later, Johnson was said to have wondered if maybe the sweat pouring down his left arm in the 90-degree Arizona heat had made his pitching hand especially wet and susceptible to a slipped delivery. That ...