1.   Gone was the pouty, pudgy impostor who had been nursing both a strained right arch and a bruised ego before the All-Star break.

2.   McGwire tore his right arch running the bases in Mesa on Tuesday.

3.   Right guard Ralph Tamm lasted only one series before his injured right arch became aggravated and he had to leave.

4.   He has missed four games because of a strained right arch and is expected to be out for at least two more.