91.   Granted, Mondesi missed two games with a sore lower back and Sheffield was suspended for three games.

92.   Greg Maddux lasted only one inning, leaving with pain in his sore lower back, and Gary Sheffield did not play.

93.   He did it despite a stress fracture in his lower back.

94.   He erased the memory of the three winless road games he missed with a hairline fracture in his lower back.

95.   He felt pain in his lower back.

96.   He had such a sore lower back that he could barely bend down in the huddle to hear the plays.

97.   He had a hairline fracture within the vertebrae of his lower back.

98.   He has been doing exercises for his lower back and has been taking ground balls.

99.   He had wrapped both hands around his lower back and kept straightening up, as if to work out a kink.

100.   He did not crawl, but he limped and repeatedly grabbed at the pang he felt in his lower back after most every swing.