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Just heard on ESPN that Roger Clemens' mother passed away this morning. Clemens says he will pitch tonight in her honor. Have'nt noticed a line move yet.
Pinny at -138 O/U at 7. Hard to say whether he will pitch his best or lose focus.
 

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Clemens intends to pitch despite mother's death



Houston, TX (Sports Network) - Bess Clemens, the mother of Houston Astros pitcher Roger Clemens, passed away early Wednesday morning due to complications from emphysema.

According to a release from the Roger Clemens Foundation distributed through the Astros, the seven-time Cy Young Award winner "intends to pitch tonight with a heavy heart in honor of his mother..."

Clemens is 11-7 this season with a major-league best 1.78 ERA. He will attempt to salvage the finale of a four-game series against the Florida Marlins.

Houston dropped the first two games of the series to fall out of the wild card lead and 1 1/2 games behind Florida, which now owns the top spot in the wild card race. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to the U.S. C.O.P.D (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) Coalition, in care of the Roger Clemens Foundation, 230 Westcott, Houston, Texas, 77007.
 

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Clemens shelled last time out. "They" say he has pulled hamstring? Mothers passing surely will have impact, but which one is the REAL question.

Marlins pitcher also shelled in last outing. Cris useing 7.5 u -25 Others have not come off the magic number of 7 but, they have the over shaded pretty good as some as high as 7o -30.

Who REALLY knows but, the right side of this total could very easeily be the over as one, if not both pitchers could be shelled "again".
 

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Clemens is the play here...JMO
 

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Clemens is the play here...JMO

I would say that the first 5 innings on Houston is the closest thing to a lock. He CANNOT wait to get out there!!! And he will pitch fast, and efficient, and the UMP will give him everything!!!
 

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I would say that the first 5 innings on Houston is the closest thing to a lock. He CANNOT wait to get out there!!! And he will pitch fast, and efficient, and the UMP will give him everything!!!

tOOK BOTH THE $$ LINE AND THE -HALF RUN IN THE 5TH. Makes great sense:103631605
 

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I am looking at a 4 teamer....all first 5 innings on the ML, except the Yanks -1/2.


Astros
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Yanks
Red Sox
 

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I take Houston runline !

COME ON ROGER, DO IT FOR YOUR MOM!
 

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this guy is pitching a hell of a game, did anyone see the double play he caused, snaring the ball off the hill and lobbed to firts to double off the fish.....then in the 6th a 12 pitch inning........NO WAY he loses this one, bull pen, another story!!!
 

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I know this is late but

To talk about about a bad week his middle son also broke his leg. I know him and his mother was the world to him. I could tell in his eyes he was really hurting. But he also knew that Bess loved baseball and she would have wanted him to pitch.
 

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Nice read

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Pretty cool:
In her final hours, she was talking baseball. Clemens said his mother asked if the Astros had made the playoffs yet, inquired about Andy Pettitte and more than once mentioned Shoeless Joe Jackson.

``I asked her if she was in the fields, and she said I think I am,'' Clemens said. ``She just loves the game of baseball.''

more runs than they've produced in the Rocket's last six starts combined...
HOUSTON -- No one who has known Roger Clemens or knows anything about his long, well-awarded and decidedly drama-packed career was surprised in the least when the big right-hander, hobbled by a lame leg and grappling with a tragedy of the most personal sort, strode up the mound at Minute Maid Park to take his regular turn in the rotation. In the culture of professional athletics -- of which Clemens is a devout and unquestioning believer -- playing hurt is simply part of the price you pay.

If Clemens hadn't stepped out here Wednesday night against the Marlins, in front of 30,000 or so of his supporters in his adopted Texas hometown, that would have been a press-stopper. If he had decided, like so many of us probably would have, that going to work on a day of mourning was just too much to ask, then we might have been surprised.

But Clemens pitched, and he pitched well, and when he left in the seventh inning to a cheering crowd and a dugout full of awed and appreciative teammates, we all knew why he did it.

He pitched because that's what Clemens does. It's what he's done all of his life. It's what he knows how to do. It's what he believes.

Most importantly, it's what Bess Clemens wanted him to do.
"I told her I needed to go to work," the son said of a conversation he had with his mother Tuesday night, "and she told me to go to work."

Roger Clemens never knew his father, and the man who raised him as his own died of a heart attack when Roger was 9 years old. The one constant in his life was his mom. Bess was there when he first started playing baseball. She was there for many of Roger's biggest accomplishments. She was always around to talk to him about his latest start or his place in the game's history.

When Clemens decided, after the 2003 World Series, to postpone his retirement and sign with the Astros instead, he was thinking of Bess. Part of the reason he agreed to a deal with Houston was so he could pitch with his buddy Andy Pettitte while remaining close to his mom, who was frail and ailing with emphysema. It was a perfect fit.

Bess' health had been failing for years, for perhaps as long as a decade. In the last two weeks, though, she took a turn for the worse, and Clemens prepared for the inevitable. At about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, after a long night with Roger at her bedside, Bess Clemens died of complications from her disease.

Roger was there, and not long after her death he let it be known that he'd take the mound Wednesday night, as scheduled.

"She wanted him to keep playing, you know?" Pettitte said.
Clemens means so much to the Astros, in so many ways. He's been the team's steadiest pitcher over the past two years, winning a record seventh Cy Young Award last season. He's been a working inspiration to the team's younger pitchers, even as he's been away for days at a time. He's the team's biggest ambassador in the community. And, let's not forget, he puts butts in Minute Maid Park's seats.

Wednesday night, his team needed him more than ever. And he needed the team. The Astros started the week a half-game ahead of the Marlins in the National League wild card standings, but the Marlins won the first two games of this crucial four-game series, dropping Houston 1? games behind. Clemens, the NL ERA leader, needed to be the stopper.

"I told them there was no way I was going to run out on them," Clemens said in a heart-rending postgame news conference.

Clemens had a rough start, walking the Marlins' first batter and giving up a first-inning run. But he settled down and got into his rhythm (in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, he threw a total of 26 pitches), the Astros scored a few runs and, when he left the game after 6 1-3 innings, limping slightly and sweat dripping from his brow, Houston held a 3-1 lead.

The Astros have struggled to score all season long, but they poured on seven more runs after Clemens' exit to win 10-2 -- more runs than they've produced in the Rocket's last six starts combined. Clemens earned the win, raising his record to 12-7 and lowering his ERA to 1.77.

"He went out and did his thing," Astros manager Phil Garner said. "He does what he always does."
Clemens had spent the last several days shuttling between Houston and Georgetown, Texas, as Bess' condition deteriorated, and many wondered before the game how he'd handle the accumulated stress. His mental state was only part of the problem. Clemens, who had his worst start of the season last weekend in Milwaukee, also is nursing a sore hamstring and feeling the effects of a 30-start season and nearly 200 innings on his 43-year-old body.

We never should have bothered to wonder. Few athletes, in any sport, rise to the occasion as Clemens has over the course of his unparalleled 22-year career. There have been lapses and controversies in that time, certainly, setbacks to go with all those Cy Youngs.

For the most part, though, Clemens has shown that he will climb the mound and take his turn. He will play hurt. He showed it again Wednesday night in the most important, most inspirational start of his storied career.

Just as Bess wanted him to do.
 

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in front of 30,000 or so of his supporters in his adopted Texas hometown,
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He is form Texas and played High School Ball in Houston..Nice article but most people dont know that he grew up in Houston
 

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