They all came out to see Rogers Clemens on Saturday afternoon and The Rocket didn't disappoint.

Roger Clemens made his first start of 2007 and led the Yanks to a 9-3 thrashing of the Pirates.  Clemens struggled early, but pitched six solid innings and the Yankee offense continued their surge as the Bombers won their 5th game in a row.

The Good:

Roger Clemens.  Clemens gave up a run in the first and labored at times, but his splitter was nasty and he put forth a strong first outing.  The Rocket continues to defy logic as he threw 108 pitches just two months shy of his 45th birthday.  It sounds ridiculous (almost insane), but if he can deliver this type of performance for the rest of the year, then it was worth the money.  Clemens picked up his first victory of 2007 and his 349th overall with this: 6 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 7 K.

Jorge Posada.  Posada gave the Yanks a 2-1 lead with an RBI single in the first and then broke a 3-3 tie with a sac fly in the fifth.  Jorgie finished 1 for 3 with a walk, a run scored and 2 runs batted in.  His average still sits at a lofty .358 on the season.

Robinson Cano.  Cano continues to scald the baseball as he picked up three more hits.  Since May 29, Cano has raised his average from .249 to .275.

The Bad:

Hideki Matsui.  This isn't really "bad," but I've come up with this formula and I'm sticking to it.  Matsui drove in a run with a sac fly, but he was the only Yankee starter to go hitless.  He also left six runners on base.

The Ugly:

Beer and baseballs.  In the eighth a foul ball was hit into the stands and somehow landed in a cup of beer.  The woman holding the cup, most likely egged on by the people around her, started chugging.  She drank a beer with a baseball in it.  A baseball rubbed with mud before the game and hit with a bat covered in pine tar and who knows what else.  Also, Kyle Farnsworth was in the game at that point and he has a disgusting habit of licking his entire palm before he pitches.  I guess that was the only thing a lady could do when a beer goes for $47 a cup.  Great job by YES to capture this on camera.

The Yanks will go for six straight and a sweep of the Pirates on Sunday afternoon.  Tyler "Yankee" Clippard will take the hill against another former Yank (there have been a slew of them lately) Shawn Chacon.

A win on Sunday will inch the Yanks to within a game of .500.