Roger Clemens continued his dreamlike hometown season as he hurled the Stros to their 10th victory in their last 12 games, 6-1 over the Marlins. The Rocket won his 7th straight game of the season, giving up only 3 hits, a walk and one run while striking out 11 in seven innings. For the first two thirds of the game, this was an old-fashioned late 1960’s-early 70’s pitching duel between Clemens and the Marlins’ Brad Penny, who dominated the Stros. However, Lance Berkman tied the game with a double to deep center off of Penny in the bottom of the seventh, and then Morgan Ensberg plated Berkman for the lead to secure the win for Clemens and send Penny to the showers. Bidg and the crew then put this one away with a four spot in the bottom of eighth.
Wade Miller takes the hill in an interesting matchup with the Marlins’ colorful Dontrelle Willis tonight at the Juice Box in the second game of this three game series.