1.   For example, he may purposefully bench a player, just to see how he reacts.

2.   He has benched slumping players and, most often, let them play through it.

3.   He has benched players and called several others up from the minors.

4.   He has benched players for talking back to the coaching staff or for showing up late.

5.   He could have benched players, cut players, thrown out schemes and ripped his team to shreds.

6.   He tried benching players then putting them back out there.

7.   How can Torre consider benching a player who frightens pitchers and managers and alters games with one sweet swing?

8.   Penicheiro kept throwing up impossible shots, the kind that get players benched in high school games, and made most of them.

9.   Scott Stevens, the normally taciturn captain, said last week that he felt players should be benched if they continued to ignore their responsibilities.

10.   Scott Stevens, the captain, said recently that Robinson should bench other players.