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Roger Clemens didn’t wait for a warm-up question.

Seated in front of an audience that included numerous former teammates and opponents earlier this week, overlooking the fairways at David Cone’s charity golf event , the Rocket went straight to the moment everyone remembers from the 2000 Subway Series : the splintered bat, the furious glare, and Mike Piazza frozen between disbelief and anger.

“He would have known if I’d thrown it at him,” Clemens said.

He paused for a beat, as if replaying the scene in his head. Game 2 at Yankee Stadium. Piazza’s bat shattered on a Clemens fastball, the barrel helicoptering toward th

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