"Matthew Paul Clement" is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher. Clement played for the San Diego Padres (-), Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs (-) and Boston Red Sox (-). While on the Red Sox active roster, he was injured all of the 2007 season. He batted and threw right-handed.

Clement had a Sinker (baseball)/sinking fastball in the low 90s and a hard slider he mixed with a Four-seam fastball/four-seamer and a changeup. He held opposing batters to a .233 batting average from 2002–05, while posting a 47-42 record and a 3.99 Earned run average/ERA.

More Matt Clement on Wikipedia.

It's disappointing. No excuses. I pitched bad. I threw bad pitches. They hit them.

Hopefully, ... we'll see what we're used to seeing out of Curt Schilling.

Let's hope it works out where we don't have to even think about that. There's more combinations that can happen where I don't pitch Monday.

He's just a few months out of college. That's unbelievable. It took me five years to get to where he is now. You obviously don't get here that quick without talent.

Everything I tried, they hit.

It's nice to catch a break there, especially this time of year. I'm just glad it didn't hit my body.

Maybe it was control in the strike zone today, ... I left a lot of balls over the plate and they did what you are supposed to do with balls over the plate. I didn't execute the pitches the way I needed to, and they didn't let me off the hook.

I didn't consider it a struggle. I thought [the pitches] were pretty close. I was not wild and all over the place, like I've been in those sitiuations lots of times. But it was nice to be able to battle out of it, and nice to pick up a game on [the Yankees].

It should be a lot of fun. There's a lot going on. It should be a fun weekend and I'm looking forward to it.