Clemens Plays Role Of Hometown Hero
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HOUSTON - Roger Clemens has pitched as many important games as any pitcher of his generation, including nine All-Star games and seven World Series outings.
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It was as if David Ortiz wanted to give a gift to every fan at Fenway Park. They had already made him a folk hero here, and his legend was about to grow.
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A pennant on the line, an adopted city&#39;s heart in his hands, a hostile stadium and swarming opponent. Roger Clemens, and a blistering National League Championship Series, have arrived at Game 7. Barely visible
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Athletes are accustomed to the buzz of living dangerously, but this time, with the supreme ego that won 354 games, Roger Clemens may have overreached.
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Not that the Astros were tight heading home down 0-2 to the Cardinals, but knowing Roger Clemens would be taking the mound for Saturday&#39;s Game 3 of the National League Championship Series had to be a comforting thought.
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NEW YORK (Sports Network) - Coming out of retirement to  play for his hometown Houston Astros for one season has landed  Roger Clemens his unprecedented seventh Cy Young Award.
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The Houston fans gave Roger Clemens a warm send-off Wednesday after he pitched six scoreless innings in his final home start of the season for win No. 348 in his career.
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No matter where he goes, the Cy Young Award always seems to find Roger Clemens, who was halfway around the globe and just off a Japanese bullet train when learning yesterday that he&#39;d won
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Roger Clemens, who will have a throwing session on Wednesday, will likely throw again over the weekend and meet the Yankees in Chicago for Mondayâs game.
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Houston - -- As if Roger Clemens did not have enough to chew on Saturday morning as he sat in the Astros&#39; clubhouse, in walks owner Drayton McLane, not to say &quot;good luck&quot; or &quot;go get &#39;em,&quot; but to tell Clemens, &quot;This is what we got you for.
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Roger Clemens and the powerful Houston lineup made sure the Astros got off to a good start in their quest to finally win a playoff series. While Clemens continually pitched out of trouble, Brad Ausmus, Lance Berkman, Carlos Beltran and Jason Lane homered for the Astros to lead a 9-3 rout of the Atlanta Braves in Game 1 of their NL division series Wednesday.
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Roger Clemens, one of Major League Baseball's best known and most successful pitchers, is among six players linked to the use of performance-enhancing drugs by a former teammate, the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday.
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Despite being part of eight playoff teams, including five World Series appearances and two championships, Clemens isn&#39;t sure he has ever experienced the kind of wave like the one the Astros are currently riding.
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Roger Clemens bounced up the steps of the Houston Astros dugout Wednesday morning and faced a group of wide-eyed minor leaguers that included his oldest son.
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Brandon Backe, a little-known local,  who arrived in the shadow of famous hometown heroes Roger  Clemens and Andy Pettitte last winter, brought the Houston  Astros to within a game of the franchise's first postseason  series victory in an 8-5 win over the Atlanta Braves Saturday.
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Roger Clemens was asked to compare starting the All-Star Game at Minute Maid Park earlier this season to what he might feel before Game 3 of the National League Championship Series today.
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Roger Clemens came out of the bullpen for a tantalizing showdown with Barry Bonds, yet the result was a pedestrian five-pitch walk. A better battle of wills occurred one inning earlier, when Noah Lowry used 11 tenacious pitches to get a bases-loaded grounder out of Alex Rodriguez.