MIAMI, May 23 (UPI) -- Five days after pitching a perfect game, Randy Johnson allowed two runs and four hits in seven innings Sunday as Arizona beat Florida, 4-3.
The 40-year-old lefthander retired the first six batters he faced before Abraham Nunez led off the third inning with a double. That ended a streak of 39 consecutive batters retired, two shy of tying the major league record of 41 set by Jim Barr of the San Francisco Giants on Aug. 23 and 29, 1972.
Nunez scored on a two-out single by Luis Castillo and Jeff Conine hit a solo homer off Johnson (5-4) in the sixth.
Dontrelle Willis (4-3) pitched four scoreless innings and retired the first two batters he faced in the fifth. Matt Kata started a string of five straight hits with a grounds-rule double and scored on a single by Alex Cintron.
Luis Gonzalez and Shea Hillenbrand followed with back-to-back RBI doubles.
