Disabled List

The Phillies will place Tommy Greene on the 15-day disabled list unless the righthander can convince them in the next three days that his strained right groin muscle is much better. What that means in an optimistic scenario is that Greene would sit out two starts instead of the one he already is scheduled to miss. Team physician Phillip Marone examined Greene before last night's game against the Cardinals. Marone said that, had he been forced to decide yesterday, he probably would have chosen to recommend that Greene be placed on the disabled list.

Vicente Padilla will remain on the disabled list after Phillies physician Michael Ciccotti examined the righthander yesterday and discovered triceps tendinitis and elbow inflammation in his pitching arm. Padilla will undergo an MRI today and a bone scan tomorrow. He has been on the disabled list since May 30 because of biceps tendinitis. The Phillies believed that condition was resolved when Padilla made a rehab start Sunday at Triple A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Padilla was removed from that start in the second inning after throwing just 33 pitches.

Ken Griffey Jr. went on the 15-day disabled list last night after a test found inflammation in a tendon behind his right knee. The Cincinnati Reds' centerfielder missed his fifth straight game with the injury. He was put on the DL after a 9-1 victory over the Florida Marlins. A fan was removed from the left-field bleachers at Chase Field in Phoenix for throwing an object at Barry Bonds during last night's game between San Francisco and Arizona. The object, which resembled a toothpaste tube, landed a few feet in front of Bonds and was removed by a security guard.

Montreal Expos rightfielder Carl Everett was put on the disabled list yesterday because of an injured right shoulder and will be out three to four weeks. An MRI exam revealed a tear and a bruise, assistant general manager Tony Siegle said. Everett was hurt on a hard slide into second base in the fourth inning of Wednesday's 9-0 loss to Florida. He was replaced in right field yesterday by Ron Calloway. Everett was batting .233, with one home run and two RBIs. The Expos will be at Citizens Bank Park for a three-game series with the Phillies beginning tonight.

An MRI yesterday showed Curt Schilling's right shoulder was normal, but the Boston Red Sox righthander will go on the disabled list after getting a cortisone shot. Schilling will miss at least two starts after he is put on the DL tomorrow, retroactive to Tuesday, with what is being called shoulder fatigue, MLB.com reported. The former Phillie, 14th on the career strikeout list with 3,086, failed to fan a batter in his last start, the first time that's happened since 1993. Los Angeles Dodgers righthander Jason Schmidt had season-ending shoulder surgery and is not expected to return until spring training 2008.

More long needles might be in Lenny Dykstra's future. So might an operation, which would require a lengthy recovery period. But for now, all Dykstra knows for sure is that he has been handed a short- term baseball ban. The Phillies' centerfielder, who continues to suffer lower-back pain, was placed on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to June 4. He will be eligible to come off for Monday's game in New York, though it is extremely unlikely...

AN MRI on injured setup man Mike Adams revealed a mild strain in the middle of his back, but the Phillies remain hopeful that they will not have to place the veteran righthander on the disabled list. Adams has not pitched since May 10, but the Phillies have been carrying an extra reliever the whole time, so they have not felt shorthanded. General manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said that the team does not feel as if it needs to make a decision on sending Adams to the disabled list until Tuesday, when they need to call up a fifth starter for a game against the Marlins.

SAN FRANCISCO - Roy Halladay found refuge on the back of a plane. "I didn't get the opportunity to speak to Roy," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said from the visiting dugout at AT & T Park yesterday. "I got up and went back to look for him, but he was asleep. I didn't want to wake him up. " After pitching through one of the worst starts of his career, and then acknowledging his arm wasn't right afterward, Halladay slept on the team's charter flight from Philadelphia to San Francisco on Sunday.

ALTHOUGH THE Phillies have yet to announce who will join their rotation when they place Roy Halladay on the disabled list, general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. may have tipped his hand when he said that the team first has to "figure out what we are going to do with our roster. " While Triple A righthanders Tyler Cloyd and Ethan Martin are on the 40-man roster, lefty Adam Morgan is not. The Phillies, however, have a spot open because they only have 39 on the 40-man roster. That would mean either placing a player on the 60-day disabled list or designating someone for assignment.

THE STRETCH RUN began around 5:30 p.m. yesterday. Fresh off a 14-2 thrashing at the hands of the worst team in the National League, the Phillies dressed in silence and headed to the airport for the start of a 4-week window that could very well dictate how much meaningful baseball they play for the rest of the season. Of their next 22 games, 19 will feature opponents who entered Sunday with a winning record. They are 5-14 against such teams this season, a winning percentage that, if maintained, would leave them around 22-32 on the final day of May. The arrival at such a juncture would force the Phillies to consider turning their attention to 2014 and beyond, a process that would involve a number of difficult conversations, including those with their tradable veterans, most of whom can exert at least some control over where they land thanks to clauses in their contracts.

FORMER major league outfielder Otis Nixon has been arrested on drug charges following a weekend traffic stop in suburban Atlanta. Nixon was pulled over just after midnight Saturday after another driver called police to report a Dodge Ram truck weaving all over the road, according to an incident report from the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office. The 54-year-old remained in jail yesterday afternoon on $11,880 bond. Officers found a pipe for smoking crack cocaine in Nixon's pants pocket and found a suspected crack rock in the driver's seat, the report says.

For the first time in his career, Phillies lefthander John Lannan was placed on the 15-day disabled list on Thursday.   Lannan has a strained quadriceps tendon in his left knee. He was hurt during Wednesday's 11-2 loss to the Reds in Cincinnati.   "This is my first time on the disabled list and it's all new territory for me," Lannan said before Thursday's game at Citizens Bank Park against the St. Louis Cardinals.   Phillies manager Charlie Manuel indicated that Lannan could spend much longer than the 15-day period on the DL. "I was told six weeks, maybe the most eight weeks - or less," he said.

A question mark coming into the season for the Los Angeles Angels was pitching, but who could have imagined there'd be a problem with No. 1 starter Jered Weaver? The righthander was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a non-displaced fracture of his left synovial hinge (that's what fans without medical degrees call a broken elbow) and is expected to miss at least a month. He left Sunday's game against the Rangers after landing on his arm trying to dodge a line drive. Ex-Phillie Joe Blanton, acquired in the offseason, may have to put down the doughnuts and pick up a few more innings.

Yankees captain Derek Jeter is resigned to starting the season on the disabled list for the first time since 2001. Jeter is undergoing treatment for his sore left ankle, still recovering from surgery last October. His last game action came as a designated hitter Saturday in a minor-league exhibition. "Of course, it's disappointing," Jeter said Tuesday in Tampa, Fla. "I told you guys all along the goal was to be ready on opening day, and I didn't reach it. I ran out of days. I pushed to try to get there opening day, and it didn't work out. But I've still got to be ready for the majority of the season.

NEW YORK Yankees captain Derek Jeter is resigned to starting the season on the disabled list for the first time since 2001. Jeter is undergoing treatment for his sore left ankle, still recovering from surgery last October. His last game action came as a designated hitter Saturday in a minor league exhibition. "Of course, it's disappointing," Jeter said Tuesday. "I told you guys all along the goal was to be ready on Opening Day, and I didn't reach it. I ran out of days. I pushed to try to get there opening day, and it didn't work out. But I've still got to be ready for the majority of the season.

CLEARWATER, Fla. - Here's something you might not know: From 2009-11, Laynce Nix' power production against righthanded pitchers ranked among some of the top lefthanded hitters in the game. Shin-Soo Choo, Brian McCann, Jason Heyward, Jay Bruce - none of them racked up extra-base hits against righties at a greater rate than Nix, who averaged a double, triple or home run every 8.61 at-bats. This little factoid is looking increasingly relevant as Opening Day grows larger on the horizon.