Rocket not Ready For Liftoff

The Rocket will be grounded for at least the next three days after tweaking his left hamstring while running last Thursday. Roger Clemens, who was scheduled to start tonight in the first of a three-game series with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, [was scratched today] about four hours before game time.

Kei Igawa will take his place in the rotation tonight, two months after the first-year Japanese southpaw was [demoted to Triple-A Scranton] due to his ineffectiveness. The Yankees sit just [two games behind](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/standings) the Boston Red Sox in the AL East, but also have a five-and-a-half-game lead over Detroit in the Wild Card race.

The Yanks also got some bad news via Boston, as the Red Sox announced that Manny Ramirez will [rejoin the first-place Sox] today, meaning the Yanks' hopes of winning the division just got a whole lot slimmer.