1.   Andy Ashby, who also had a torn flexor muscle and made just two starts for the Dodgers, is throwing off a mound.

2.   Brown continues to pitch with a torn flexor muscle in the elbow that might require surgery after the season.

3.   Brown has amazed the Dodgers and the medical staff by his quick recovery from September surgery to repair a torn flexor muscle.

4.   He missed much of last season with various ailments and pitched part of the season with the torn flexor muscle.

5.   Houston has missed four games with a torn hip flexor muscle suffered against Washington in mid-September.

6.   Hodge, meanwhile, is scheduled to have surgery today to repair a torn flexor tendon sustained in a fall Friday night.

7.   Indeed, surgery to repair the torn flexor muscle in his right elbow is a distinct possibility.

8.   Kevin Brown started for the first time in six weeks, returning from a torn flexor muscle in his pitching elbow.

9.   Kevin Brown, after missing six weeks with a torn flexor tendon in his right elbow, is trying to regain his arm strength.

10.   Pitcher Steve Green will have surgery today to repair a torn flexor muscle in his right forearm and damage to the ulna collateral ligament.