1.   All of this was without a completely healthy Travis Knight, who is slowly recovering from a fractured left thumb.

2.   Charles Oakley is out with a fractured thumb.

3.   Guard Malik Sealy had his fractured right thumb examined again and is expected to be out no more than two weeks.

4.   She went on to the next cubicle, a simple fractured thumb that even Joe Reynolds had managed to diagnose and set without too much trouble.

5.   But the children missed out on Jayson Williams, who remained at home with the fractured right thumb he sustained on Friday night.

6.   Conine was playing first base because Clark, who signed with Baltimore after the Rangers got Palmeiro, is on the disabled list with a fractured left thumb.

7.   Darby, who had pins inserted in the fractured thumb last week, took a hit on the thumb Wednesday and was in considerable pain.

8.   Douglas will miss at least four games with a fractured thumb.