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Walter Perry Johnson (November 6, 1887 – December 10, 1946), nicknamed "Barney" and "the Big Train", was an American professional baseball player and manager.He played his entire 21-year baseball career in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for the Washington Senators from 1907 to 1927.
Walter Johnson made 14 Opening Day starts for the Washington Senators.. Two American League baseball franchises have borne the name "Washington Senators". The first franchise was one of the teams that was originally part of the American League when it became a Major League in 1901.
The club continued to lose, despite the addition of a talented 19-year-old pitcher named Walter Johnson in 1907.Raised in rural Kansas, Johnson was a tall, lanky man with long arms who, using a leisurely windup and unusual sidearm delivery, threw the ball faster than anyone had ever seen.
Walter Johnson, after pitching his first 20-victory season (23) since 1919, was making his first World Series appearance, at the age of 36, while nearing the end of his career with the Senators. He lost his two starts, but the Senators battled back to force a Game 7, giving Johnson a chance to redeem himself when he came on in relief in that game.
Washington's Bucky Harris scores on his home run in the fourth inning of Game Seven of the 1924 World Series. The Senators finally made it into the postseason after many years of being the laughingstock of the American League. Behind ace pitcher Walter Johnson, they won the deciding Game Seven 4-3 in extra innings.
Walter Johnson pitched a complete game and allowed only five hits and struck out ten. The Senators got on the board in the second on Joe Harris 's home run off of Lee Meadows . In the fifth, they loaded the bases on three singles with no outs, but after Meadows struck out the next two batters, a two-run single by Sam Rice made it 3–0 Senators.
The 1913 Washington Senators team photo. This was a very good season for a team that was considered perennial losers. The nucleus was still ace pitcher Walter Johnson.He won each category of the pitching triple crown by wide margins and was voted league MVP, in perhaps his best season.
Walter Johnson threw the first no-hitter in Senators/Twins history on July 1, 1920; the most recent no-hitter was thrown by Francisco Liriano on May 3, 2011. [5] Four left-handed pitchers have thrown no-hitters in franchise history while three were by right-handers.