The date: April 29, 1986. The site: Fenway Park in Boston. It's the ninth inning, and 23-year-old Red Sox righthander Roger Clemens has just frozen Seattle's Phil Bradley to notch his 20th strikeout of the game. It's a new major league record for strikeouts in a 9-inning game, breaking the modern day 19-K mark originally set by Steve Carlton in 1969. |