Astros Tab Munro to Start Game 6
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ST. LOUIS – Roger Clemens can relax. For now, Pete Munro is the Houston Astros’ pick to pitch them into the World Series.
Ahead 3-2 in the NL championship series, manager Phil Garner studied it: the Rocket on three days’ rest vs. a journeyman hit hard last week. On the team flight to St. Louis, Munro was told he would start Game 6 today against the Cardinals.
“I guess I was kind of overwhelmed,” Munro said before yesterday’s workout at Busch Stadium. “I’m sure that they’d rather face me than Roger. I mean, I’d rather face me than Roger.”
Instead, Clemens will be held back for a possible Game 7. Or maybe a start in the World Series opener.
“There are going to be a lot of people saying do the opposite, start Roger,” Garner said. “But what I feel in my gut is what I have to do.”
