HODGES ON DL: The Atlanta Braves placed pitcher Trey Hodges on the 15-day disabled list Monday with a strained right elbow and recalled pitcher Jason Marquis from Triple-A Richmond.
The move was retroactive to Sunday.
Marquis has had two stints with Atlanta and was 0-0 with a 5.71 earned run average in six appearances. He was 8-4 with a 3.55 ERA in 15 games as a starter at Richmond, winning his last three starts.
Hodges is 3-1 with a 4.06 ERA in 37 games with the Braves, all but one in relief.
INJURY STOPS PAINTER: The St. Louis Cardinals put left-handed reliever Lance Painter on the 15-day disabled list with a left calf injury Monday and optioned reliever Mike Crudale to Triple-A Memphis.
The team also recalled left-hander Pedro Borbon Jr. and right-hander Josh Pearce from Memphis.
"With the makeup of our bullpen, we need innings," St. Louis manager Tony La Russa said. "Pearce is here for protection in case we need some innings over the next few days. So he's taking Mike's spot. We're trying to survive series to series, week to week. This makes the best sense right now."
Center-fielder Jim Edmonds, meanwhile, was to sit out Monday's game against Pittsburgh with a stiff shoulder. He's played in only four games since the All-Star break.
Painter was hurt in the seventh inning of Sunday's 4-3 victory over Pittsburgh, trying to cover first base on a ground ball. He missed 60 games earlier in the season after tearing a tendon in his right leg in April.
Painter (0-1) appeared in 21 games this season, with a 5.00 ERA and 11 strikeouts in 18 innings.
Crudale was 0-1 with a 2.38 ERA in 13 appearances.
St. Louis bought the 35-year-old Borbon's contract from Long Island of the Atlantic Independent League for $3,000 last week. At Memphis, Borbon pitched one inning with one hit and two strikeouts. At Long Island, Borbon was 4-2 with a 2.13 ERA in 31 games.
The Cardinals are Borbon's fifth major league club.
Pearce saw action in three games with St. Louis in 2002.
This season at Memphis, Pearce was 2-2 with a 4.03 ERA in five games, all starts.
METS RECALL CERDA: The New York Mets recalled left-hander Jaime Cerda from Triple-A Norfolk of the International League, filling the roster spot vacated Monday when the team traded reliever Graeme Lloyd to Kansas City.
Cerda, in his fourth stint this season with the Mets, is 1-1 with a 6.56 ERA in 18 relief appearances. He was traveling to New York and was expected to be available for the team's game against the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday night.
PIRATES' MOVES: Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Kris Benson went on the 15-day disabled list Monday, a week after he took himself out of the rotation because of shoulder discomfort.
Benson was to have started Tuesday night against San Diego in Pittsburgh. The Pirates wrapped up a four-game weekend series in St. Louis on Monday.
"It's not worth my career to continue to throw," Benson said in St. Louis. "It's not in my best interest to keep going out there feeling the way I'm feeling. . . . If I have to have something done (surgically), I have to do it now."
The Pirates don't think Benson needs an operation and recently had tests performed on him that were negative. The right-hander plans to seek opinions from two doctors not on the Pirates' staff: James Andrews, who performed reconstructive surgery on him in 2001, and Craig Morgan, who operated on Arizona pitcher Curt Schilling's shoulder.
General manager Dave Littlefield said Benson's problem was "minor irritation" in the shoulder.
HUNTER WAIVED:Veteran outfielder Brian Hunter was put on waivers by the Houston Astros, and outfielder Colin Porter was recalled from Triple-A New Orleans.
Hunter was hitting .235 with no homers and 13 RBIs in 56 games this season before Sunday night's move. He hit .269 with 20 RBIs in 98 games in 2002.
Hunter has played in 1,000 major league games over 10 seasons, batting .264. He started his major league career with the Astros in 1994, was traded to Detroit in 1996 and returned to Houston last season as a free agent.
Porter hit .304 with 10 homers and 39 RBIs in 88 games for New Orleans this season.
FOSSUM SENT DOWN: Boston Red Sox left-hander Casey Fossum, the longtime subject of trade talks, was optioned to Triple-A Pawtucket on Monday to get more work.
Utilityman Lou Collier was called up to take Fossum's place on Boston's roster.
Fossum was discussed as part of a potential deal for Montreal's Bartolo Colon over the offseason, but the Red Sox refused to include him with third baseman Shea Hillenbrand. The Expos traded Colon to the Chicago White Sox and Hillenbrand was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Byung-Hyun Kim. Fossum has recently been mentioned in a possible trade for Toronto pitcher Kelvim Escobar.
TWINS RECALL RESTOVICH: The Minnesota Twins recalled outfielder Michael Restovich from Triple-A Rochester on Monday and optioned first baseman Justin Morneau to the International League club.
Restovich was hitting .267 with 16 homers and 65 RBIs in 409 at-bats for the Red Wings.
Morneau, a highly-touted prospect who had six hits in first 11 major-league at-bats last month, started only one game since the All-Star break and saw his batting average dip to .227.
KENDALL'S APPEAL DENIED: Pittsburgh catcher Jason Kendall will begin serving a three-game suspension Tuesday for his role in a bench-clearing brawl against Tampa Bay in June.
Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, denied Kendall's appeal, baseball spokesman Pat Courtney said Monday.
Kendall and Tampa Bay's Marlon Anderson wrestled after Anderson was hit by a pitch June 13, touching off a bench-clearing brawl. Anderson also was suspended for three games.
PLAYER KILLED: An American Legion baseball player died Saturday after being struck in the head by a batted baseball the night before.
Brandon Patch, an 18-year-old pitcher for the Miles City Mavericks, was hit in the fifth inning Friday night. He was motionless on the ground for 20 to 30 minutes before being taken to a hospital. Later in the evening he was flown to Great Falls and put on life support.
A spokeswoman for Benefis Healthcare in Great Falls said Patch died early Saturday.