HOUSTON (AP) – Roger Clemens finally got some run support and won for the first time in his latest comeback.

The seven-time Cy Young Award winner allowed two runs and four hits and struck out five in five innings Monday night, leading the Houston Astros to a 7-2 win over the Chicago Cubs.

The 43-year-old earned his 342nd career victory, his first since beating the Cubs 3-1 in the second-to-last game of the 2005 regular season.

Lance Berkman homered twice and Preston Wilson had an RBI double as the Astros scored more than three runs for just the 13th time in Clemens’ 35 starts since the beginning of last season.

Clemens (1-2) was hardly perfect – he walked three, threw a wild pitch and gave up a home run to Jacque Jones – but he still allowed two runs or fewer for the 19th time in his last 23 starts. He left after throwing 115 pitches.

The Astros failed to score in the 11 1-3 innings Clemens had pitched in his two starts since re-signing with the team on May 31. Houston was shut out nine times in 2005 when Clemens started.

Craig Biggio ended the threat of another blanking in his first at-bat, driving the first pitch from Cubs rookie Carlos Marmol into the seats in left. It was Biggio’s 48th leadoff homer, which trails only Rickey Henderson (80) on the all-time list. Berkman added a solo homer in the first.

Jones pounded a 2-0 fastball from Clemens just inside the foul pole in right in the second.

Jones walked in the fourth after battling Clemens for nine pitches. He stole second and went to third when Clemens threw a wild pitch, a split-fingered fastball that skidded past Astros catcher Brad Ausmus.

Clemens walked Michael Barrett before Angel Pagan singled to center to tie it at 2.

After a visit at the mound from pitching coach Jim Hickey, Ronny Cedeno grounded out on Clemens’ 37th pitch of the inning. Clemens had a similarly exhausting 38-pitch inning in his first start, a 4-2 loss to Minnesota and rookie ace Francisco Liriano on June 22.

Luckily for Clemens, he wasn’t facing Liriano this time.

With two outs in the Astros’ fourth, Marmol (1-3) walked Clemens to load the bases, a bad mistake considering Clemens is a career .185 hitter. Marmol escaped when Aramis Ramirez caught a sharp liner by Biggio.

Juan Pierre tripled off Clemens with one out in the fifth when Willy Taveras couldn’t make a diving catch in right-center. Clemens got out of the inning when Ramirez grounded out, but he shook his head in frustration as he walked back to the dugout.

For a change, the Astros’ bats bailed him out.

With one out in the fifth, Mike Lamb doubled and Berkman was intentionally walked. Wilson then smacked a double down the left-field line, scoring Lamb.

After Morgan Ensberg walked, manager Dusty Baker replaced Marmol with Roberto Novoa.

Ausmus then grounded to Todd Walker to start what looked like an inning-ending double play, but Cedeno’s foot missed second base as he threw the relay to get Ausmus. Berkman scored on the play and Baker argued with umpire Mark Wegner. Replays showed that Cedeno’s foot missed the bag by several inches.

Biggio singled and Taveras was hit by a pitch in the sixth. Baker then brought in Will Ohman and Berkman blasted his fifth pitch into the left-field seats.

Berkman, the only Astro on next week’s NL All-Star roster, homered twice in the same game for the third time this season and the 17th time in his career. He has 24 homers for the season.

Notes: Pierre leads the Cubs with six triples. … Ten of Jones’ 15 homers this season are solo shots. … Clemens is tied for eighth on the all-time victories list with Tim Keefe. … Biggio’s sixth-inning single was his 2,876th hit, tying him with Mel Ott for 36th on the all-time list. … Ausmus is in an 0-for-36 slump.

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