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• Yankees 9, PIrates 3: A little more than a month after his dramatic announcement, and despite a short delay, Roger Clemens returned to the Yankees with a win yesterday against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Clemens threw for 6 innings, allowing 5 hits, 3 runs, and struck out 7. It was The Rocket's first win with the team since 2003 and his 349th career victory. The 44 year-old Clemens threw 108 pitches, 69 of them for strikes. While the return of Clemens was the big news of the day (each start of his will cost about $900,000), the bigger news is the team's winning streak. The Yankees have won a season-high five games in a row, and are 2 games under .500, where they haven't been since May 9th.
• Tigers 8, Mets 7: Runs have seemingly been hard to come by in recent days for the Mets. Yesterday, they scored 7, but unfortunately it wasn't enough. Oliver Perez had a rough outing for his 2nd loss in a row, allowing 5 runs over 5 innings. Guillermo Mota didn't help things when he relieved Perez, giving up 3 runs in only 1/3 of an inning. The Mets have lost 5 of 6.

Hitting for the cycle includes getting each type of hit, single, double, triple and home run. Players can also hit for the natural cycle, which means getting each hit in order from single through the home run. While hitting for the cycle is not as rare as the perfect game - see list of players who have hit for the cycle - it's still a major accomplishment. Ward's father, former major leaguer Gary Ward, also hit for the cycle, which makes them the first father-son combo to do so. Gary Ward got his cycle on September 18, 1980 when he was on the Twins.

Gothamist loves covering food, but this is really bizarre: What to make of the so-called "Sausage incident" in major league baseball? The Milwauke Brewers sevening inning stretch entertainment involves a four sausage race inside Miller Park. Huh? Yes, a hot dog, a bratwurst, a Polish sausage and an Italian sausage race each other to the delight of baseball fans. But during a game between the Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates, the Pirates first baseman Randall Simon "half" swung his bat at the Italian sausage, who fell and took the hot dog with her. Simon was arrested (but charges were later dropped to disorderly conduct), the Brewers were outraged, and the Italian sausage felt the whole thing was overblown and that Simon didn't mean any harm. Gothamist can only say that it's a good thing that (a) NY doesn't have such an insane activity (though you never know what Steinbrenner will do...wait, we do have Mr. Met) because (b) New Yorkers would have spilled onto the field, demanding to know what Simon had against Italians and then (c) the tabloids would never stop talking about it.