Roger Clemens’s chief accuser said pitcher used performance enhancing drugs to ‘push himself’

Roger Clemenss chief accuser told a former client that the star pitcher used performance-enhancing drugs to recuperate and push himself to the limit, according to court testimony Tuesday.

A former client of Clemenss strength coach told jurors in the baseball legends perjury trial that Brian McNamee also kept syringes from injections he allegedly gave professional ballplayers to protect himself from possible prosecution.

Im not going to get thrown under the bus, so Ive taken care of it, the witness, Anthony Corso, said McNamee told him.

During a workout in 2002 or 2003, McNamee first told Corso that human growth hormone or HGH had helped athletes like Clemens recover.

He said it was the kind of medication that would allow the athletes to continue working out as they were getting older and breaking down, Corso told jurors. McNamee mentioned that Clemens was one of the athletes he was getting positive results from.

Defense attorneys had tried to block Corso, a financial consultant, from testifying about his conversations with McNamee. But U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton allowed prosecutors to question Corso Tuesday to try to back up the strength coachs testimony.

McNamee is the only witness with firsthand knowledge of Clemenss alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs. The baseball star is charged with perjury, making false statements and obstruction of Congress for denying to a House panel in 2008 that he ever used steroids or HGH.

Under cross-examination, defense attorney Rusty Hardin zeroed in on Corsos description of the increasingly rocky relationship between McNamee and Clemens. Corso said the relationship deteriorated because of late payments and McNamee's unpredictable work schedule that put a strain on his family life.

Hardin expressed frustration with Corso during a break in the testimony, telling Walton, Hes refusing to say as much as hes said before. Hes not testifying fully.

And the exchange between Corso and Hardin was testy at times.

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Roger Clemens’s chief accuser said pitcher used performance enhancing drugs to ‘push himself’