1.   Childs missed his second straight game with a bruised left wrist.

2.   He ended up with a bruised wrist.

3.   Kevin Lowe, the veteran defenseman, wore a soft cast on his bruised left wrist Thursday, but said he would play without it.

4.   Then promising right-hander Eric Gagne was forced to leave the game when a comebacker left him with a bruised right wrist.

5.   Watson, whose bruised right wrist has not prevented him from practicing this week, is expected to be fine.

6.   Garciaparra missed the last five games with a bruised right wrist after he was hit by a pitch.

7.   Garciaparra won the AL batting title, homered in the decisive fifth game of the AL division series in Cleveland and was still nursing a bruised wrist.

8.   Mets catcher Mike Piazza missed his fifth straight start with a bruised right wrist and a hyperextended right elbow, but doubled as a pinch-hitter in the eighth.

9.   Mets C Mike Piazza was not in the starting lineup for the fourth consecutive day after sustaining a bruised right wrist on Friday.

10.   She suffered jelly fish stings and bruised wrists from hitting the cage, but otherwise was in good shape.