Randy Johnson errant swing against Roy Oswalt

Something clearly went wrong with this swing. Early radio reports were calling his injury a "strained shoulder".

More recently he has been diagnosed with a torn labrum from this accident.

vs Houston Astros @ AT&T Park July 5, 2009

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• baseball
• hitting
• mechanics
• Randy
• Johnson
• shoulder
• injury
• SF
• Giants

[azpandaman]

The mans not a batter, he's a pitcher. And you have to consider that this guy is 6'11''

[badgerhockey99]

go to 0:20

[cudaj2]

Screw the DH rule, if you're out in the the field you take your turn at the plate. Once upon a time there were some great hitting pitchers, maybe not alot of home runs but they got on base and scored runs. The DH rule just gives guys who are not good in the field or not good anymore a chance to stay in the game longer. Don't need to hear any silly arguments about "more offense" either. You want to tell that to the players who played before the DH rule? Didn't think so. They'd slap u or laugh!

[TheNcd24]

@azpandaman not to mention he's 40 something right here

[buddaman200522]

Last time I check, Randy Johnson is known for pitching

[alexmatthew6]

i was at this game with my family for my birthday

[kiss2112]

@azpandaman he is 6'10" he is the second tallest pitcher in baseball history

[kwank24]

:22... Physiologically, your arm isn't supposed to do that. =(

[patrickkb100]

one of the best pitchers of all time

[bigbird7]

@3jaredc no it's to increase the competition... so you have the best guy at throwing the ball on your team out there against the best guys on the team at hitting... and then there's the NL where you take any skill involved out, and kill innings, when you send some jamoke pitcher out there to swing a bat 3 times and sit down... or not swing at all.

[3jaredc]

@pjicleanair420 "The DH rule is like letting somebody else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws." ~Rick Wise, 1974. To update it, replace Wilt with Shaq. Same idea.

[ErikHartog]

@5643557 Normal camera's get around the 30fps (=30 pictures per second). This is a high speed camera which can record around 600fps...

If you slow it down 4x, it will still be smooth. If you slow 30fps down to 4x, it won't be smooth.