European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 36 stars and stripes june 2007 baseball Roundup rocket fizzles instead of 350th Clemens loses second straight Start As is swept by Colorado the associated press Denver the High Altitude of Colorado got to Roger Clern unfortunately for new the thin air didst have its expected Impact on the Yankees Clemens was denied his 350th career Victory and the Colorado Rockies completed a surprising three game sweep of the Yankees with a 43 Victory on i dont want to see them Hows that manager Joe Torre said when asked to com ment on the Rockies Clemens 12 probably Doest want to see Denver he was trying to become the first major leaguer to win 350 games since Warren Spahn of the Mil Waukee braves on Clemens lost for the Sec Ond straight he gave up Solo homers to Garrett his and Troy his to erase a 20 Yankees Lead the Tulowitzki shot to left enter travelled an Esti 445 Torre said Clemens was done in by a combination of the 93de Gree heat and the High i was taking deep breaths on the my Mouth got dry a couple Clemens that was the More difficult heat or cold is not a big the one inning a storm blew in and the wind changed the wind hit my Chest and caused me to throw the Ball out of the but i made the wind started to blow straight five years the Yankees scored a record 41 runs in their first trip to but much has changed since the Humidor has taken full effect and so has Colorado retooled pitching this the Rockies outscored new York prompting their fans to wave brooms As the dejected bombers swirled into their clubhouse after thursdays the Yankees had won 14 of 17 coming in and didst see this thumping coming even though the Rockies Are playing Well a major league est 207 since May 22 and an impressive 93 against the Al Matt holidays rib single with out in the fifth broke a 22 tie and chased the who failed to hold a 20 Lead and Al Lowed four earned runs and seven hits with one walk and six strike it All starts with the who leads the a major league baseball scoreboard Elaine Seattle Pitcher Felix Hernandez rejoices after striking out Pittsburgh Adam Laroche to end the eighth inning of thursday nights Hernandez struck out nine As the mariners beat the pirates Jors with 107 the Yankees Are a great offensive team and for them Rockies pitchers to give up Only five runs in three on a warm week three Days of warm the Ball was play ing pretty fair but it was jumping pretty for them to give up five runs is Rodrigo Lopez 40 survived Hideki Matsu is two run Home run into the Rock pile in Cen Ter scattering seven hits Over innings to drop the Yan Kees Back to and Lovi games behind Boston in the Al the Yankees Are hoping this de tour in Denver Doest portend an other bad stretch like they endured during the first two months of the this was just hopefully a pot Hole that we just didst like very Torre but i dont think we have any doubts on what kind of team we Are right i think we just hit a bad rangers cubs 5 Pinch hit ters Kenny Lofton and Frank Catalanotto singled off the gloves of diving cubs outfielders in the Bot Tom of the ninth producing the winning run for Host Lofton started the rally off Bob Howry 34 with a Lead off a sinking liner to left that Alfonso Soriano hauled in after a diving at tempt but  hold after hit Ting the Eric Gagne the fifth Texas walked one in one scoreless orioles padres 3 Alberto Castillo hit his first Home run in More than two leading Erik Bedard and visiting Al East cel Lars Weller to a series Victory Over no West leading san the two victories came after a nine game losing Streak by Balti which fired manager Sam Perlozzo on monday and re placed him with Dave Trembley on an interim David Wells 35 allowed three runs two earned and 10 hits in 6vs Bedard 54 gave up two runs and five hits in six he struck out nine and walked he left after straining his left dodgers Blue jays 4 Jeff Kent hit a two run Home run and Russell Martin doubled to spark a six run rally in the eighth for visit ing los the dodgers trailed 32 to begin the eighth before mounting a on out rally against righthand or Casey Janssen who re tired none of the six batters he allowing six runs on five hits and a Rudy Seanez 41 got two outs for the the dodgers rally denied Tor onto right hander Shaun Marcum his third straight mar cum gave up two runs and two hits Over six walking three and striking out mariners pirates 0 Felix Hernandez 44 allowed six hits in eight innings in his Best Start since returning from a forearm in jury and Host Seattle shut out Pittsburgh for the second straight Ichiro Suzuki had two hits for the mariners to extend his hitting Streak to 16 the longest current Streak in the he has at least one hit in 41 of his last 43 John Van Benschoten making his second major league Start since september Al Lowed six hits and three runs in five he walked two and struck out american league Rockies Yankees 3 East York a Colorado w l 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