Clemens gets 331st career win shutting down the Giants, 4-1

Homers by Lance Berkman and Craig Biggio ended Astros' four-game slump.
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HOUSTON -- Roger Clemens struck out a season-high 10 in his 331st career win, pitching the Houston Astros past the San Francisco Giants 4-1 Saturday night.
Lance Berkman hit his first home run of the season after a two-run shot by Craig Biggio in the sixth inning, helping Houston end a four-game losing streak with its second victory in 12 games.
Clemens (3-1) gave up one run and five hits in eight innings, his longest outing of the season. He walked none and has allowed just seven runs in eight starts this season for a 1.11 ERA.
The Astros scored only 11 runs for Clemens in his first seven starts, and six of those games were decided by one run.
Brad Lidge got three straight outs for his seventh save in eight chances.
It was the 109th time Clemens has struck out 10 or more, third on the career list behind Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson. The last time Clemens did it was Sept. 24, when he fanned 12 in Milwaukee.
The last time the Rocket went eight innings was Sept. 19, also against Milwaukee.
Clemens also got his sixth hit of the season and is batting .353 (6-for-17), best among Houston pitchers.
Giants starter Brett Tomko (3-5) gave up four runs and six hits in six innings. He struck out four and walked one. He had won three of his last four starts.
Consecutive homers by Biggio and Berkman put Houston ahead in a three-run sixth.
Orlando Palmeiro started things off with a single and scored on Biggio's sixth home run of the year, third in three games.
Berkman followed with his first of the season. He was out until May 6 following offseason knee surgery.
San Francisco took a 1-0 lead in the third when Ray Durham doubled and scored on a double by Jason Ellison. Houston tied it in the fifth when Adam Everett doubled and scored on a single by Brad Ausmus.
SAN FRANHOUSTON
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Drham 2b4110Tveras cf4000
Ellison cf3011OPlmro rf4110
Feliz 1b4000Biggio 2b2112
Alou lf4010Brntlett 2b0000
Alfonzo 3b4010Brkmn lf4111
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Trralba c3000Ensbrg 3b3010
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Houston00001300x--4
DP--San Francisco 1. LOB--San Francisco 5, Houston 4. 2B--Durham (6), Ellison (6), Ensberg (9), AEverett (9). HR--Biggio (6), Berkman (1). SB--Ellison (5).
IPHRERBBSO
San Francisco
Tomko L,3-5664414
Herges210010
Houston
Clemens W,3-18511010
Lidge S,7100002
HBP--by Clemens (Ellison). Umpires--Home, Gary Cederstrom; First, Bill Welke; Second, Tim Welke; Third, Brian O'Nora. T--2:11. A--41,323.
Cardinals 7, Mets 6
NEW YORK -- Long after Mark Mulder and Pedro Martinez were gone, Larry Walker helped the St. Louis Cardinals rally past the New York Mets.
Walker pinch-hit in the eighth inning and had a go-ahead sacrifice fly against Roberto Hernandez, leading the Cardinals to a 7-6 victory Saturday.
Kaz Matsui chased Mulder with a tying three-run triple in a four-run sixth inning, but the Mets failed to hold a 6-5 lead in the eighth.
Abraham Nunez walked against Hernandez (2-1) leading off the inning, Albert Pujols blooped a single to left and Jim Edmonds doubled home the tying run.
John Mabry grounded out with the infield in and Mark Grudzielanek, who tied a career high with four RBIs, loaded the bases with a walk. Walker batted for So Taguchi and lofted a fly to left that drove in Pujols.
Julian Tavarez (1-1) pitched 1 2-3 scoreless innings, and Jason Isringhausen, activated from the disabled list Friday, got three outs for his eighth save in eight chances. He had been sidelined since April 26 with a strained abdominal muscle.
Isringhausen issued a leadoff walk to Jose Reyes, but retired Carlos Beltran and Mike Cameron with the potential tying run at second base to end it.
Mulder had won five straight starts, allowing just five earned runs. But given a 5-2 lead, he gave up singles to Cameron and David Wright in the sixth, and loaded the bases with a 10-pitch walk to Ramon Castro.
Matsui, in a 2-for-27 slide that dropped his average to .223, then poked an opposite-field triple into the right-field corner. Brad Thompson relieved, and pinch-hitter Victor Diaz grounded a single up the middle through the drawn-in infield to put the Mets ahead.
Mulder allowed six runs and 10 hits in five-plus innings, his ERA rising from 2.70 to 3.44. Martinez gave up five runs -- four earned -- and five hits in six innings.
Martinez's previous appearance against the Cardinals was in Game 3 of last year's World Series, when he allowed three hits in seven shutout innings, retiring his last 14 batters in Boston's 3-0 victory.
ST. LOUISNEW YORK
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Pujols 1b5110Beltran cf5010
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Tvarez p0000
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Totals33797Totals366136
St. Louis020102020--7
New York000204000--6
E--Pujols (4), Cairo (1). DP--St. Louis 1, New York 1. LOB--St. Louis 5, New York 8. 2B--Edmonds (7), Mabry (3), Cairo (4), Cameron (4), Wright (8). 3B--KMatsui (1). HR--Nunez (4), Grudzielanek (3). CS--Reyes (4), Wright (2). S--Cairo. SF--Grudzielanek, LWalker.
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St. Louis
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Thompson120000
King1-300001
Tavarez W,1-11 2-310001
Isringhausen S,8100021
New York
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RHernandez L,2-1122220
DeJean110002
Mulder pitched to 4 batters in the 6th. Umpires--Home, Rob Drake; First, Mike Reilly; Second, Andy Fletcher; Third, Bob Davidson. T--3:09. A--40,921.
Reds 12, Phillies 4
PHILADELPHIA -- Ken Griffey Jr. hit a go-ahead three-run homer and Adam Dunn added a solo shot in a six-run seventh inning, lifting Cincinnati over Philadelphia.
Griffey also doubled and drove in four runs for the Reds, who had season highs in runs and hits (17). Felipe Lopez, Austin Kearns and Ryan Freel all had three hits and Cincinnati finished with a season-high eight extra-base hits.
CINCINNATIPHILA
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Freel lf5230Rollins ss4120
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Madson p0000
Geary p0000
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Totals43121712Totals34494
Cincinnati000110640--12
Philadelphia003100000--4
DP--Cincinnati 2, Philadelphia 1. LOB--Cincinnati 10, Philadelphia 5. 2B--Freel (7), FLopez (7), Randa (10), Griffey Jr. (13), Kearns (6), DJimenez (5). HR--Griffey Jr. (5), Dunn (11), LaRue (1), BAbreu (9). SB--Freel (8).
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Cincinnati
Harang W,2-2894424
Weathers100000
Philadelphia
Wolf662228
Madson L,1-21-356600
Geary1 2-354423
TAdams110000
HBP--by Madson (Freel), by Wolf (Dunn). Umpires--Home, Joe West; First, Brian Gorman; Second, Mike DiMuro; Third, Mark Carlson. T--2:41. A--30,189.
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