CC Sabathia recorded the 3,000th strikeout of his Major League career on Tuesday night against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The left-hander reached the milestone in the bottom of the second inning when he got John Ryan Murphy swinging at a changeup as he struck out the side.

He is the 17th pitcher to reach the mark, but just the third lefty.

"When I actually got that last strike, I didn't want it to be Murph," Sabathia said of the former second-round Yankees draft pick. "Me and him are really close, I've been knowing him his whole career."

Sabathia and Murphy played together with the New York Yankees from 2013 to 2015, with Murphy having caught Sabathia 15 times.