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In each of his two seasons with Toronto, Clemens won a Cy Young Award, as well as the pitching triple crown by leading the league in wins, ERA, and strikeouts.
Prior to the 1999 season, Clemens was traded to the New York Yankees where he won his only two World Series titles.
Clemens left for the Houston Astros in 2004, where he spent three seasons and won his seventh Cy Young Award.
" Clemens was the only starting pitcher since Vida Blue in to win a league MVP award until Justin Verlander won the award in.
Clemens signed a four-year, $ 40 million deal with the Toronto Blue Jays after the 1996 season, and won the pitching triple crown and the Cy Young Award in both his seasons in Toronto.
On April 8,, Clemens won his first start of the season against the Cincinnati Reds, which tied him with Steve Carlton for second in wins for live-ball pitchers, and first among pitchers whose career began after World War II.
By the end of the 2005 season, Clemens had won seven Cy Young Awards ( he won the AL award in 1986,,,,, and, and the National League award in ), an MVP and two pitching triple crowns.
However, he was easily beaten in the American League MVP voting by pitcher Roger Clemens, who also won the Cy Young Award that year.
On September 28, 2003, the final day of the regular season, Wells earned the 200th win of his career in a game managed by Clemens, who had won his 300th game earlier in the season and was thought to be retiring from baseball ( Clemens ended up delaying his retirement ).
Other pitchers who have won multiple Triple Crowns include Christy Mathewson ( 1905 and 1908 New York Giants ), Lefty Grove ( 1930 and 1931 Philadelphia Athletics ), Lefty Gomez ( 1934 and 1937 New York Yankees ), and Roger Clemens ( 1997 – 1998 Toronto Blue Jays ).
He has said that Jose Canseco's statistics should be thrown out due to his admitted use of steroids, and has also said that unless he can refute allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs, Roger Clemens should be stripped of the four Cy Young Awards he has won since 1997.
Wakefield won his 200th career game on September 13, 2011 against the Toronto Blue Jays, and is third on the Boston Red Sox with 186 team victories, behind both Cy Young and Roger Clemens, who have 192 each.
In 2005, a 10 – 1 Oregon team ( favored by 3 points while ranked 6th in the nation ) playing without its star quarterback Kellen Clemens lost 17 – 14 to a surging Oklahoma squad that had won six out of its last seven.
Johnson won the Cy Young Award five times, second only to Roger Clemens ' seven.
Chesbro won 14 straight games from May 14 through July 4, a New York franchise record that stood until Roger Clemens broke it in 2001.
The 2000s redistricting added heavily Democratic Southfield and Mount Clemens to the district, and he has won re-election in every election with at least 68 % of the vote since.
One of the biggest endorsers of gloves was Roger Clemens, who won seven Cy Young Awards ( awarded to best pitcher in each baseball league ).
After posting a record of 12-2 with a 1. 39 ERA in the first half of the 1991 season, including being awarded the American League Pitcher of the Month award for May, Erickson won 20 games in his first full season and finished second to Roger Clemens in the American League Cy Young Award.

Clemens and start
Clemens ' best year with the Yankees came in 2001, when he became the first pitcher in MLB history to start a season 20 – 1.
( This spectacle was repeated when the Yankees ended up playing the Red Sox in the 2003 ALCS and Clemens got a second " final start " in his original stadium.
Clemens made one start in the World Series against the Florida Marlins ; when he left trailing 3 – 1 after seven innings, the Marlins left their dugout to give him a standing ovation.
In his final start of the 2005 season, Clemens got his 4, 500th strikeout.
After a bad start in Game 2 of the 1986 World Series, Clemens returned to the mound for Game 6, which would have clinched the World Series for the Boston Red Sox.
His 3 – 0 record in the World Series includes a performance with New York down 2 – 0 in the 2001 series ; then, in Game 7, it was Clemens who matched Curt Schilling ; his start ( 6 innings, 1 run, 10 strikeouts ) was forgotten in the wake of the Diamondbacks ' famous ninth-inning comeback.
However, during the World Series, a hamstring pull ended Clemens ' start after two innings, as his hometown team lost to the eventual World Champion Chicago White Sox, 5 – 3.
In his fifth career start, on May 6, he threw a one-hit, no walk, 20-strikeout shutout against the Houston Astros, tying Roger Clemens ' record for strikeouts in a nine-inning game and breaking Bill Gullickson's single-game rookie record of 18 strikeouts in 1980.
Clemens ' start attracted nationwide attention and a record crowd of 9, 022.
After leading the Jets to a dismal 1 – 7 start, coach Eric Mangini decided to bench Pennington for second year quarterback Kellen Clemens.
He is a six-time all-star, and is one of only four pitchers in major league history to start the all-star game for both the American League ( 1971 ) and the National League ( 1978 ); Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson and Roy Halladay would later duplicate the feat.

Clemens and on
Though Adolf Hitler succeeded in garnering the support of many German industrialists, prominent traditionalists openly and secretly opposed his policies of euthanasia, genocide, and attacks on organized religion, including Claus von Stauffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henning von Tresckow, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, and the monarchist Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.
However, James Ussher, in his writings of the Ussher chronology, republished as " The Annals of the World " claims that this is a mistake, basing his opinion on the writings of Clemens Alexandrinus.
Roger Clemens, who had retired after the season with the New York Yankees, agreed to join former teammate Pettitte on the Astros for 2004.
The one-year deal included unique conditions, such as the option for Clemens to stay home in Houston on select road trips when he wasn't scheduled to pitch.
Clemens Thoma provides an explanation for this based on the observation that Josephus may have learned of the details of the actions of Annanus in the twenty year gap between the writing of the Jewish Wars and the Antiquities, and thus avoided a positive tone when writing of Ananus in the Antiquities.
Clemens was alleged by the Mitchell Report to have used anabolic steroids during his late career, mainly based on testimony given by his former trainer Brian McNamee.
Clemens firmly denied these allegations under oath before Congress, leading congressional leaders to refer his case to the Justice Department on suspicions of perjury.
On August 19, 2010, a federal grand jury at the U. S. District Court in Washington, D. C., indicted Clemens on six felony counts involving perjury, false statements and obstruction of Congress.
Clemens pled not guilty, but proceedings were complicated by prosecutorial misconduct, leading to a mistrial .< ref >< http :// articles. cnn. com / 2012-04-16 / justice / justice_baseball-clemens_1_michael-attanasio-laura-pettitte-jury-selection? _s = PM: JUSTICE ></ ref > The verdict from his second trial came in on June 18, 2012.
Clemens was found not guilty on all six counts of lying to Congress in 2008, when he testified that he never took performance-enhancing drugs.
Clemens was drafted 19th overall by the Boston Red Sox in 1983 and quickly rose through the minor league system, making his major league debut on May 15,.
Ultimately, Clemens would go on to have a record of 162 – 73 for the rest of his career after leaving the Red Sox.
Clemens made an immediate impact on the Yankees ' staff, anchoring the top of the rotation as the team went on to win a pair of World Series titles in 1999 and 2000.
Clemens chose to come out of retirement, signing a one-year deal with his adopted hometown Houston Astros on January 12,, joining close friend and former Yankees teammate Andy Pettitte.
On May 5,, Clemens recorded his 4, 137th career strikeout to place him second on the all-time list behind Nolan Ryan.
The Astros declined arbitration to Clemens on December 7,, which prevented them from re-signing him before May 1,.
The Astros, Rangers, Red Sox, and Yankees expressed an interest in signing him, but Clemens implied that he was finally retiring after his Team USA was eliminated by Mexico in the second round from the 2006 World Baseball Classic on March 16, 2006.
Clemens made his return on June 22, 2006, against the Minnesota Twins, losing to their rookie phenom, Francisco Liriano, 4 – 2.
Following what was becoming familiar annual speculation, Clemens unexpectedly appeared in the owner's box at Yankee Stadium on May 6,, during the seventh-inning stretch in a game against the Seattle Mariners, and made a brief statement: " Thank y'all.
Clemens made his 2007 return on June 9, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates with six innings of 3-run, 5-hit, 2-walk, 7-strikeout pitching.
Clemens left the game after 7 innings leading 3 – 2, but the Red Sox infamously went on to lose the game in the 10th inning, and subsequently, the championship.
Clemens most explosive postseason failure came in the second inning of the final game of the 1990 ALCS against the Oakland Athletics, when he was ejected for arguing balls and strikes with umpire Terry Cooney, putting a dismal stamp on an A's sweep.
While playing for Houston, Clemens was not obliged to travel with the team on road trips if he was not pitching.

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