DODGERS NOTEBOOK: SORE ELBOW PUTS ACE ON DL AGAIN.Byline: Jill Painter Staff Writer The Dodgers couldn't wait for Kevin Brown The name Kevin Brown can refer to several different people, including the following:
Brown, who experienced pain in his right elbow and lasted just 20 pitches in Sunday's start at Arizona, was placed on the 15-day disabled list Monday with a posterior medial sprain sprain, stretching or wrenching of the ligaments and tendons of a joint, often with rupture of the tissues but without dislocation. Sprains occur most commonly at the ankle, knee, or wrist joints, causing pain, swelling, and difficulty in moving the involved joint. of the elbow. Dr. Frank Jobe examined Brown's elbow before Monday's game and determined he wouldn't be able to make his scheduled start Saturday or possibly the next one either. Brown isn't sure how the latest injury to his elbow occurred. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. , that's just it,'' Brown said. ``You go from feeling so good one day to so bad the next. (We're) just trying to figure out exactly what's wrong and put the pieces together and maybe figure out what happened.'' The severity of the injury to his surgically repaired elbow - the same one that sent him to the disabled list last month - isn't believed to be serious and Jobe hopes today's MRI 1. (application) MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2. MRI - Measurement Requirements and Interface. will confirm that. Still, with the state of the taxed bullpen, the Dodgers couldn't hesitate. ``We had the luxury of waiting last time Kevin was hurt, but this time we don't have that ability,'' Dodgers general manager Dan Evans said. ``We're all pulling for him. We hope (today's) exam goes well. We're all rooting for him. We root for this guy every time he's on the field.'' This is the second time this season - and fifth in the last two seasons - that Brown, 38, has been placed on the disabled list. When Brown went on the disabled list April 20 with a right elbow injury, the team waited to make a move because the starters were pitching deep into games and the bullpen was fresh. Omar Daal Pierce College offers associate's degrees, mainly in the arts and sciences. There are also certificate programs in early childhood education, social services, dental hygienist, and others. product who was at Triple-A Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . He joined the team Monday. Brown felt discomfort in his warmup session before Sunday's game. ``I was hoping it was just stiffness and that it would get better, but that didn't turn out to be the case,'' he said. There's speculation that Brown is calling the shots where his elbow is concerned. ``If there had been anything to indicate that he shouldn't have made the start, he wouldn't have made the start,'' Evans said. Jobe believes Brown has a pinched synovium, which is the lining of the joint, and a sprained capsule, which is the area surrounding the ligament. He believes the ligament is fine and that one stint on the 15-day disabled list should be enough recovery time. ``It doesn't hurt exactly in one spot,'' Jobe said. ``We don't really know how he did it. In Milwaukee, he was throwing really good. Maybe he slept on it wrong. He doesn't seem to think it was one pitch that hurt him, and that's another reason to think that this isn't a surgical thing.'' Brown said he understood the club's decision. The Dodgers had no other choice, especially after Sunday's bind in which the bullpen threw 194 of 215 pitches after Brown left after just two-thirds of an inning. ``It is a cause of concern because of the domino effect it has (on the pitching staff),'' Dodgers manager Jim Tracy
Nor does it make things easier when the nature of these elbow problems is unknown. ``These days, I'm not trying to predict the future anymore,'' Brown said. --Odds and ends: Second baseman Mark Grudzielanek didn't play Monday after fouling a ball off his left big toe big toe n. The largest and innermost toe of the human foot. in an at-bat against pitcher Byung-Hyun Kim on Sunday. The toe was swollen and sore. ... Reliever Jesse Orosco could be activated from the disabled list Wednesday. ... Shawn Green's record bat, which he used to hit four homers Thursday, is being stored in the Dodgers clubhouse, for now. The bat will be sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame. DODGERS vs. MILWAUKEE Time: 7:10 p.m., Dodger Stadium. TV/Radio: Fox Sports Net 2; 1150-AM, 1330-AM (Spanish). Matchup: It will be a battle of left-handers as Glendon Rusch (3-4, 4.79 ERA) makes his 11th start for the Brewers. Rusch hasn't pitched past the second inning in either of his two career starts against the Dodgers. LHP LHP Left-Handed Pitcher LHP Left Hand Path LHP Lighthouse Point (Broward County, Florida city) LHP Left Half-Plane LHP Lead Hollowpoint (bullet) LHP Living History Project LHP Landslide Hazard Program Kazuhisa Ishii (7-1, 2.77) led the Dodgers to a 16-3 win against the Brewers in his last start Thursday. Ishii, who became the first pitcher since division play began to start in his first six appearances and win them all, has allowed 18 runs in 55 1/3 innings. - Jill Painter CAPTION(S): box Box: DODGERS vs. MILWAUKEE (see text) |
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