It was the 69th time Rivera has saved a regular-season win by Pettitte, a major league record.
But a statement from fellow pitcher Andy Pettitte, a close friend of Clemens' who was his teammate on the New York Yankees and Houston Astros, undercut some of Clemens' denials.
Since Pettitte had enrolled in a junior college instead of a four year program, the draft rules at the time had allowed the Yankees to follow Pettitte and still negotiate a deal with him up until the day before the 1991 draft.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi said he didn't have a problem with Pettitte starting the seventh.
For a day, Pettitte took back the mound, and his (slightly) younger counterpart in left field owned the bases.
Working with a rookie catcher, Andy Pettitte unraveled early, and the Yankees could not figure out Lucas Harrell during a 9-1 loss to the Astros on Monday night that ended their four-game winning streak.
Pettitte accumulated a winning percentage of at least .650 or better seven times in his career.
First of all, they said Andy Pettitte is a longtime friend of Clemens.
As Derek Jeter dug in against Andy Pettitte, a familiar voice boomed from the top step of the dugout.
Pettitte was a two time 20 game winner and had won 15 or more games in a season 8 times.
Another likely witness for the prosecution is Andy Pettitte, a former New York Yankees teammate and a friend of Mr. Clemens's.
But Pettitte is a month shy of his 41st birthday and the no-decision left him 0-2 in his last three starts after he opened 3-0.
Pettitte missed a start in April because of lower back spasms.
While Pettitte had more wins and a higher winning percentage than Hentgen, the former ace of the Blue Jays had bested Pettitte in key categories such as earned run average, innings pitched, strikeouts, complete games and shutouts.
Pettitte never had a losing season in his 16 year career and lost double-digit games in a season five times.
Work, religion and family have defined who Andy Pettitte is as a ball player and who he will be in retirement.
Pettitte was now a member of the Houston Astros and confirmed that he had injected himself with the performance enhancing substance once.
Pettitte allowed only a run-scoring groundout by Lorenzo Cain and a solo homer by Billy Butler while improving to 15-3 in his career against the Royals.
Four weeks after Major League Baseball's career home-run leader was indicted on charges of lying to a grand jury about steroid use, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and other big stars of the game were named in a long-awaited report from former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell about performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.
One, pitcher Roger Clemens, was said by a former teammate, pitcher Andy Pettitte, to have taken HGH.
Pettitte has practically made a career of righting the ship for the Yankees.
Making his return without even pitching in a minor league rehab game, Pettitte is perhaps more fragile than he realizes.
Over the course of his career, Pettitte had developed into a perfectionist whose mental toughness was profoundly admired and respected by teammates and opponents alike.
Domonic Brown had a run-scoring single off Pettitte during the third.
For a man whose faith is at the epicenter of his life, it was a blessing in disguise for Andy Pettitte to spend one year at San Jacinto Junior College.
Originally, Pettitte had planned on accepting a scholarship to play at the University of Texas.
Cobb allowed three hits over 8 1-3 innings in a 3-0 victory over Andy Pettitte on April 24.
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