1.   Barring further elbow pain, Smoltz is set to return to the rotation Friday in Montreal.

2.   Elbow pain and a sprained knee are not all he has had to dismiss.

3.   He reported no elbow pain, no shoulder pain, no stomach pain, no headaches, no neuritis, no neuralgia and no typhoid fever, either.

4.   In his never-ending search for a way to throw with less elbow pain, he dropped down and threw some pitches from the side.

5.   Orlando Hernandez has been dealing with something besides elbow pain recently.

6.   Smoltz, who uses a three-quarter delivery to relieve his elbow pain, seemed to telegraph his moves to the Mets.

7.   With John Franco out indefinitely with elbow pain stemming from off-season surgery, the Mets have no proven way to get to closer Armando Benitez.

8.   Afterward, Cordova complained of elbow pain and got a cortisone injection from a team doctor.

9.   Bryant first complained of elbow pain last year but seemed to have recovered fully when the current season started late in March.

10.   Cardinals pitchers have had differing responses to the such elbow pain.