NEW YORK (AP) -- Randy Johnson became only the second pitcher to win Cy Young Awards in both leagues, beating out Houston's Mike Hampton Tuesday in the vote for National League honors.
The Big Unit, a 6-10 left-hander for the Arizona Diamondbacks, led the league in ERA and strikeouts.He received 20 first-place votes, 11 seconds and one third for 134 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Johnson was 17-9 with a 2.48 ERA and 364 strikeouts in 271 2-3 innings. He joined Gaylord Perry as the only pitchers to win Cy Youngs in each league.
The 36-year-old Johnson won the AL Cy Young with Seattle in 1995. Perry won with Cleveland in 1972 and with San Diego in 1978.
"There's numbers you don't see," Johnson said during the season, "like a stretch where I had 14 consecutive starts where I gave up two or less runs."
Hampton, who went 22-4 and led the NL in wins, was second with 11 first-place votes, 17 seconds and four thirds for 110 points. Atlanta's Kevin Millwood was third with one first, four seconds and 18 thirds for 36 points.
Johnson became only the second pitcher since 1991 to break the hold on the award by Atlanta's Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz. After winning for Chicago in 1992, Maddux won the next three for the Braves; Glavine won in 1991 and 1998, and Smoltz won in 1996.
Interrupting their run was Pedro Martinez, who won it for Montreal in 1997 and is expected to become the third two-league winner when this year's AL voting is announced Tuesday.
Johnson led the NL in complete games with 12 and finished 19 strikeouts short of the single-season strikeout record set by Nolan Ryan in 1973, winding up with the fourth-highest single-season total.
He struck out 10 or more 23 times, matching the record Ryan set with the California Angels in 1973.
In seven of Johnson's losses, Arizona scored two runs or fewer, including a stretch in which the Diamondbacks were shut out in four straight starts of his. He had a 1.41 ERA in those games.