56 Year Old Roger Clemens pitches against the University of Texas, a breakdown
What Happened
At a University of Texas alumni game, 56-year-old Roger Clemens took the mound to face current Longhorn hitters. The seven-time Cy Young winner had clearly lost his velocity, sitting around 83-84 mph on fastballs while leaning hard on his breaking stuff. Jomboy walks through Clemens repeatedly shaking off fastball calls and going to the curve and splitter instead, mixing in some nasty offspeed pitches that still danced. Clemens worked into trouble, gave up three runs and reportedly got annoyed that the kids were bunting on him, but he eventually got out of the inning.
Why This Matters
This is the rare Jomboy breakdown with no actual stakes, which is part of the charm. It's a legend doing legend things long past his prime. Clemens pitched his last big league game in 2007 with the Yankees, so seeing him still spinning a useful splitter more than a decade later says something about the craft surviving the arm. The fastball was gone, hovering in the low 80s, so he survived on sequencing and movement instead of power. The bunting bit lands because it captures generational tension: young hitters treating a Hall of Fame talent like batting practice, and the old man wanting respect. No real aftermath here beyond a friendly loss, but the clip endures as a reminder that great pitchers learn to win without their best stuff.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momenttexas had an alumni game so of course
Roger Clemens took them out doesn't
matter that he's 56 years old his two
sons say go get him daddy says get away
from me kids i got work to do
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opens up looking like
roger of old check this out little leg
kicks less but just getting the swings
and misses
probably 15 miles per hour or less but
he's hitting 83
84. now he's got to dig deep he knows
he's probably doesn't have a lot of
rocket balls left
gonna have to go to the curve catch
calls for the fastball no [ __ ] way
dude there's no way i'm gonna be able to
do that
so he twirls one 79. how about that
drops it right in there
but then tries to go back to the well
kid pokes it to the left
come on show some respect strike
yourself out now this kid's button what
are you guys doing
you're trying to get killed trying to
get a bat thrown at you shakes the
catcher again
probably calling for fastballs no thank
you slices that one the left
02 just fouling them off goes inside
not gonna happen staying away from the
fastball elevated there
and then another ball in play not going
well
outside up high walks this next batter
getting too flirty doesn't want to throw
a fastball in the zone and get rocked
next batter's up has him 02
but then he's getting flirty come on 56
year old roger clements come on don't
flirt with us
just bring us the heat i don't have the
heat that's the problem
kids are like oh no it's not the dad i
remember
oh no but he comes back he goes strike
one
strike two on a foul ball then
oh he finds the splitter check out this
nasty pitch just darts and dives away
56 year old clements bringing it gets
the double play ball gonna need some
help
sons one time one time do something
special for me
can't do it true runs score three
runs score he doesn't escape trouble
look at that pitch holy
smokes goes from there to there
get it rocket get after it
and then that kid eventually pokes one
to center field
he gets out of it alumni are taking a
quick
loss though down three nothing clemens
was pissed
that the kids bunted on him said like
come on you got grandpa up here and
you're bunting
pretty absolutely incredible that he's
still twirling it out there at 56 years
old
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