Rob Johnson got the assignment to catch Felix Hernandez's last start, and during the course of the game Saturday night in Los Angeles, Johnson and umpire Chuck Meriwether marveled together about the movement on Hernandez's stuff, the two chortling from pitch to pitch, as King Felix's fastball cut and sank, as his curveball broke over the plate. "Both of us were like, 'This is nasty,'" Johnson said. The frightening thing for hitters is that Hernandez himself is just beginning to understand how ...

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