Tuesday, February 28, 2006
"This guy threw at his own kid in a father-son game."That quote by Bob Uecker's character in Major League never rang so true.
Roger Clemens, consumate red-ass/mercenary actually played some chin music for his own son yesterday after he took his old man yard in his first at-bat.
Roger Clemens 's son took dad deep on the Rocket's first pitch of spring training, crushing a trademark fastball over the left field fence yesterday.Helluva guy, that Rocket...
"That was probably one of the harder fastballs I cut loose," Clemens said after throwing to son Koby and other Astros minor leaguers. "He got my attention."
Then Clemens got Koby's. The next time his oldest son came to the plate, Clemens buzzed him high and tight with another fastball. The younger Clemens dodged the pitch, then smiled at his father.
"He was like, 'Sorry about that pitch inside. I was trying to change the view of the ball for you a little bit,'" said Koby, a third baseman who was drafted by Houston last summer. "I said, 'I knew what you were doing.'"
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