On Monday evening Roger Clemens became the eighth player in history to win 350 MLB games at club level, a feat not achieved since Warren Spahn won his 350th game in 1963.
The 44-year-old Clemens managed to limit the Minnesota Twins to just two hits and one run across eight innings, dominating the Minnesota players and leading the Yankees to a 5-1 victory at the Yankee Stadium.
Scoring only one run in the first five innings, the Yankees picked up speed after Bobby Abreu hit a home run, and ended 5-1 up at the start of the Twins last innings.
Having only given away one run in his second innings, Clemens earned a standing ovation from the crowd after his last pitch of the night flew past the Twins' Lew Ford to be called strike.
"I just feel really blessed. I don't know any other way to put it," Clemens told an interviewer after the game, "everything that's happened to me since 2003 has come my way as a blessing."
Despite the opinions of his manager Joe Torre, who thinks that 350 game winners are likely to soon disappear, Clemens believes that other players could reach the 350 win mark if they were committed enough.
"I think if guys are willing to pay the price to do the work to stay healthy and stay out there," said Clemens. "If their bodies hang in there, I don't think there's any reason why they can't."
Clemens said he hopes that winning the match will help the Yankees get themselves out of their first half problems.
"Hopefully it will lead to good things," Clemens said. "We'll have a good week, guys take a deep breath with the break, and we'll get back out there to grind it for the second half."