ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Roger Clemens took another step toward an impressive milestone.

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Clemens won his 295th game and Alfonso Soriano and Nick Johnson
opened the game with consecutive homers as the New York Yankees
beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 10-5 Sunday.

"Longevity is paying off,'' Clemens said. "It's something I've
worked really hard throughout my career to do and I just keep
getting paid back for it in different good ways.''

Clemens (2-0) allowed four runs and six hits in seven innings.
After limiting Tampa Bay to a run and three hits through six, the
six-time Cy Young Award winner gave up a three-run homer to Javier Valentin in the seventh.

Clemens struck out six, including rookie Rocco Baldelli four
times, and walked three. He would be the 21st pitcher to reach 300
wins.

"Sure he wants to win 300,'' Yankees manager Joe Torre said.
"But I certainly think he wants to make his last year if it turns
out to be his last year ... something more than the 300 wins. I
sense he's looking beyond that. I think he's looking to have the
kind of season Roger Clemens is suppose to have.''

Bernie Williams also homered for the Yankees, who concluded a
season-opening road trip at 5-1. New York has scored 54 runs and
outhomered its opposition 15-2.

"It still surprises me that we're swinging the bats this well
this early,'' Torre said.

Soriano and Johnson started the game with back-to-back homers
off Victor Zambrano (0-1) to put the Yankees up 2-0. It was just
the third time in team history the feat has been accomplished.

Hank Bauer and Andy Carey did it on April 27, 1955, against the
Chicago White Sox. The other time came when Chuck Knoblauch and
Derek Jeter homered on July 30, 1999, at Boston.

Valentin got the Devil Rays within 2-1 on a sacrifice fly in the
second. He tied a career-high with four RBI.

New York loaded the bases with no outs in the third, but scored
just once on Williams' sacrifice fly to make it 3-1. Williams hit a
solo homer during a three-run, seventh and added an eighth-inning
RBI double to move past Bob Meusel (1,005) into ninth place on the
Yankees' all-time RBI list with 1,007.

Erick Almonte had an RBI double and Soriano hit a run-scoring
single as New York took a 5-1 lead in the sixth. Almonte added an
RBI single in the ninth.

"The key was early in the game to try and keep them off the
board and keep the momentum on our side,'' Clemens said. "And our
guys finally broke though, so it was nice,''

Zambrano allowed five runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings. He
walked six, struck out two and had two wild pitches. In two starts,
Zambrano has given up 11 runs, 12 hits and 10 walks in 10 innings.

"We've been in the bullpen too much,'' Devil Rays manager Lou
Piniella said. "We've got to get more innings from our starting
pitching.''

After Williams homered leading off the seventh, Robin Ventura
and John Flaherty hit RBI singles extending the Yankees' lead to
8-1.

Valentin's homer in the bottom half made it 8-4.

Baldelli hit an RBI single in the ninth off Juan Acevedo. He has
a hit in all seven games.

"You're going to have days like this,'' Baldelli said. "You
try not to worry or get down. You learn from it.''

Game notes
Yankees RF Raul Mondesi said he was fine after fouling a
ball off his left big toe in the seventh. He then doubled and was
replaced by pinch-runner Chris Latham. ... Soriano went 3-for-6 and
has recorded multi-hit efforts in all six games this season. He has
nine career homers leading off a game. ... Ventura (back stiffness)
was back in the lineup after not playing Saturday. ... Tampa Bay RF
Ben Grieve singled in the fourth to end an 0-for-13 slide. ...
Zambrano threw just 56 of 118 pitches for strikes. ... Yankees LF
Hideki Matsui has a hit in all six games. He's the first player to
hit safely in his first six games as a Yankee since Joe Lefebrve in
1980. ... The Yankees left a runner stranded at third base in every
inning from the second through the fifth.