The Yankees and Indians faced off tonight with dueling Johnsons on the mound, Jason for Cleveland and Randy for New York. Unfortunately, the pairing ended up a bit lopsided with the Yankees prevailing 6-1 even though their Johnson was ejected in the process.

It was the first matchup between two starting pitchers named Johnson in over 74 years and just the 14th recorded faceoff in baseball history. The last double-Johnson pairing was on May 2, 1932, as Syl Johnson and the Cardinals edged Si and the Reds, 2-1, at home. (Syl? Si? I bet he had a sister named Sue. Thank you, Jack Benny.)

Here are all the games between starting pitchers named Johnson in baseball history. As you can imagine there a number of Walter Johnson starts in there, But just one against Walt Johnson:

The fourteen Johnson pair-ups are second all time to—you guessed it—the ones by the Smiths. No, not that annoying and incredibly overrated Morrissey band—"Bigmouth Strikes Again" was inexcusable—I mean the last name Smith. Here are the all-time rankings:

By the way, the Walt/Walter Johnson game made me wonder how often two pitchers with the same first and last name faced off. The answer is just three times, with the Bobby J. vs. Bobby M. Jones matchup from a few years back being one. The other two are from one century earlier: