1.   Belanger owned Nolan Ryan and Weaver always had him bat second against the strikeout king.

2.   For years, many discounted Ryan by labeling him as a strikeout king, even though he was that, the greatest of all time.

3.   He might have challenged Johnson as the strikeout king of their generation.

4.   In the meantime, there is some smoke-and-mirrors action going on as the Mariners trot in strikeout kings and basepath demons.

5.   It needs a fresh face and a new strikeout king.

6.   Piniella issued a quasi-defense of Benes, saying that the former NL strikeout king pitched more aggressively.

7.   Johnson, the major-league strikeout king the past three seasons, got eight strikeouts, but not much else.

8.   Strikeout king Randy Johnson got his first-hand look when he started for Arizona against Colorado at Tucson, Ariz.