Aug. 3 -- WALKING WOUNDED

MILWAUKEE -- If, at any point before this week, you ever predicted that Jayson Werth, Aaron Rowand and Chris Roberson would comprise the Phillies' outfield in the ninth inning of an Aug. 2 game against the Cubs at Wrigley, please e-mail me (slauber@delawareonline.com) and share your thoughts on tomorrow's lottery numbers.

But this is what it's come to for the Phillies, who have had 13 players on the disabled list this season. If you've lost track, here's the list: Starting pitchers Freddy Garcia (twice), Jon Lieber (twice) and Scott Mathieson, relievers Ryan Madson (twice), Tom Gordon, Brett Myers and Francisco Rosario, first baseman Ryan Howard, second baseman Chase Utley, outfielders Werth, Michael Bourn and Shane Victorino, and effective this morning, catcher Rod Barajas. The Phillies, needing another reliever after their bullpen logged eight innings yesterday in relief of injured starter Kyle Lohse (no DL yet for him), put Barajas on the DL with a groin injury and recalled right-hander Clay Condrey. I wrote in today's paper that the Phils couldn't recall Condrey yet because they outrighted him to triple-A Ottawa earlier this week. But the injury to Barajas allowed them to bring Condrey back sooner than the 10 days he ordinarily would've had to stay in the minors.

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Lohse doesn't expect to miss a start, especially since the Phillies don't play Monday and he'll have an extra day of rest before he's scheduled to take the mound Wednesday night against Florida.

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Are you concerned about Gordon's shoulder? The Phillies should be. If Gordon can't pitch more than two days a week, how much can he possibly contribute?

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David Brown from the Northwest Herald (near Chicago) had 20 questions for Jimmy Rollins.

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Got here a little while ago after taking a nice 90-minute ride on Amtrak 333. Definitely the way to go if you're traveling from Chicago to Milwaukee. One last word as we sadly leave Chicago in our rear-view mirror: As you may have heard a few thousand times last month, the Phillies became the first pro sports franchise to lose 10,000 games. Well, the Cubs haven't won a World Series since 1908, also an ignominous feat.

One of the many cool features of Wrigleyville is this sign on the roof of the Lakeview Baseball Club across the street on Sheffield Avenue (beyond right field). It reads, "Eamus Catuli!," rougly Latin for "Let's Go Cubs!" Next to the sign, a counter is updated annually. "AC" stands for "Anno Catuli" ("In the Year of the Cubs"). The first two digits indicate the number of years since the Cubs' last division title (2003). The next two represent the number of years since the Cubs' last World Series appearance (1945). The last two represent the number of years since their last World Series title (1908).