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Think about it for a second: Can you picture Roger Clemens sitting in front of his locker before a start, playing a guitar like Clay Buchholz? Put a guitar in Clemens's hands, and he'd be liable to go all Belushi in Delta House on you, smashing it to bits.Clemens was Big Gulp Texan. Buchholz is Texas Lite, more stealth than swagger.

The snarling Clemens commanded a game like Patton. The laid-back Buchholz orchestrates a game like Lockhart.Clemens stuck out his chin and dared you to hit him, like Marciano. Buchholz is more feints and jabs and Ali shuffle.Clemens was the Rocket. Buchholz is simply Buch.

But for all their differences, it's what they have in common that dominated the domed landscape Wednesday night in Rogers Centre, where the 28-year-old Buchholz ran his record to 6-0 and his ERA down to 1.01 after tossing seven shutout innings in Boston's 10-1 decimation of the Toronto Blue Jays.

"That was fun to watch, huh?" Sox catcher David Ross said after Buchholz held the Jays to two hits, a single by Munenori Kawasaki in the third and a single by Melky Cabrera in the seventh. "That was fun to catch."

The last Sox pitcher to win his first six starts with a lower ERA? A 28-year-old Roger Clemens, who celebrates his birthday 10 days before Buchholz celebrates his, grew up about an hour and a half away from Buchholz's birthplace of Nederland, and in 1991 was 6-0 with a 0.73 ERA after six starts.

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