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Welcome to the big leagues, Matt Cepicky, who makes his major league debut 21 years ago today as a late-inning replacement for Montreal right fielder Vladimir Guerrero in a 5-1 loss to Arizona at Olympic Stadium.

Cepicky enters the game in the top of the ninth and finds himself getting his first at-bat in the bottom of the inning – against Randy Johnson, the hard-throwing, 6-foot-11 Hall of Famer who regularly flosses with left-handed batters like Cepicky.

Doesn’t help Cepicky that his first at-bat in the majors comes after the surly left-hander gives up an RBI single by the light-hitting, shutout-ruining Jose Macias.

Cepicky – photographed here in better times by the incomparable Ed Wolfstein – quickly becomes Johnson's 14th strikeout victim of the game, which ends four pitches later as Johnson strikes out Jose Vidro.

Thankfully for Cepicky, he never again faces Johnson in a career that includes parts of five seasons in the majors from 2002-06.