PHOENIX -- Craig Counsell will be preparing to manage the Brewers at Chase Field on Sunday when former teammate Randy Johnson is inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Counsell conjured Game 7 of the 2001 World Series, on this very field, in describing his most vivid memory of the Big Unit.
"The first thing that comes to my mind was just him walking out of the dugout in Game 7 of the World Series, going down to the bullpen," Counsell said. "In Game 6, he had started and thrown [104] pitches, and you didn't want him to have to go down to the bullpen -- it was kind of a precarious moment in the game and everything -- but it just kind of gave you chills to see the big man going down there, knowing he said, 'Look, I'm available.