New York, NY (My Sportsbook) - Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson collected his fourth consecutive National League Cy Young Award Tuesday, as he was a unanimous choice by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

It marks the fifth Cy Young of Johnson's career, as he also won the American League award with Seattle in 1995. Only Roger Clemens, with six, has won more Cy Young Awards than Johnson. The honor earned Johnson a $1 million bonus and a $3 million increase in salary for next year.

Johnson's teammate Curt Schilling finished second in the voting for the second straight year, while Atlanta's John Smoltz placed third. Johnson and Schilling became the first pitchers to finish 1-2 in Cy Young voting in consecutive years.

Johnson went 24-5 in 2002 with a NL-best 2.32 ERA in 260.0 innings, posting a career-high in wins. The big lefthander led the majors in wins, strikeouts (334), and innings pitched. Over his final 12 starts, he posted an 11-1 record with a 1.31 ERA.

He is only the second NL pitcher since 1973 to lead the three major pitching categories (wins, ERA and strikeouts), joining Dwight Gooden's effort in 1985 with the Mets.

The 39-year old Johnson had eight complete games and four shutouts this season. In his 15-year career, Johnson is 224-106 with a 3.06 ERA. The lanky, 6'10" hurler has 3,746 career strikeouts, good for fourth best all-time. Only Nolan Ryan, Steve Carlton and Clemens have more career strikeouts.

Last season, he led the majors with a 2.49 ERA and struck out 372 batters, coming within 11 of Ryan's record for strikeouts in a single season.

Johnson matched Greg Maddux (1992-95) as the only pitchers to win four straight Cy Young Awards and is the NL's first unanimous winner since Maddux in 1995.

The "Big Unit" broke into the majors in 1988 with Montreal. He was traded to Seattle during the 1989 season and played for the Mariners until being dealt to Houston in July of 1998. The Diamondbacks signed Johnson, who was a free agent, before the 1999 campaign.

Johnson has a record of 81-27 in four seasons with the Diamondbacks and was part of Arizona's World Series championship squad in 2001. He won three games in the 2001 World Series against the Yankees with 19 strikeouts and a 1.04 ERA. He and Schilling were named co-MVPs of the series.

Schilling had a strikeout-to-walks ratio of 9.58 in 2002, the best single- season mark since Bret Saberhagen's 11.0 in 1994. The hard-throwing righthander struck out 316 batters and walked just 33 in 259 1/3 innings, while going 23-7 with a 3.23 ERA.

Smoltz set a National League record with 55 saves in 2002.