61.   Sergei Zubov was at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan instead of practice Monday, having a bone chip removed from his left wrist.

62.   Smith, who had surgery last month to remove bone chips from his elbow, will be available as a backup but likely will not play.

63.   Stricker missed much of the preseason and four games because of an operation to remove bone chips from an ankle.

64.   Surgery was scheduled after a second doctor confirmed the bone chip Phillies team physician Dr. Phillip Marone found Thursday.

65.   That material is then processed through another machine that filters out any bone chips or sinew.

66.   That nodule silencing Wilson is the equivalent of a minor bone chip in a horse.

67.   The bone chip that caused irritation to a nerve and swelling is less problematic now, he says.

68.   The bruise included a small bone chip which, when the knee swelled, irritated a nearby nerve.

69.   The bone chips remain, but Perez has contended he can pitch fine with them.

70.   The club already is without set-up man Antonio Osuna, who learned Monday that he needs season-ending surgery to remove bone chips in his right elbow.