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By Les Carpenter | Yahoo! Sports – 5 hours ago

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Pettitte nodded.
"I'd say that's fair," he replied.
Roger Clemens took notes on Andy Pettitte's testimony. (Reuters)
And in four words he might have destroyed the case of the attorneys for whom he was supposed to be the star witness.

six words actually.  I would say that is fair.  Even though it is a contraction, it should count as two words.