Your 2006 Giants: Injury List Update, All-Star Break

Update on all the injuries and illnesses Giants players have had or been fighting this season or basically anything that made them unavailable for a game. Updated as of July 11, 2006, All-Star Break:

• Moises Alou: twinge in left hip caused him to pull up short (4/30 injury; 2 games missed); sprained ankle (DL 5/5-6/5; missed 29 games); bad lower back pain (6/18 injury reported, missed games 6/18-25, DL retroactive on 6/29-7/5; missed 16 games).
• Armando Benitez: inflamed left knee, bursa sac (3/15 injury reported; DL 4/1-4/19); flu 4/4; elbow tenderness 6/23.
• Barry Bonds: ongoing problems with left knee and bone chips in left elbow since spring training; pain, lower left side muscle 6/3 and aggravated 6/6, missed games 6/7-10 (4 games). Sore right knee, missed 7/8 game.
• Ray Durham: plantar fascialitis (2/26-4/2; on-going?); strained left hamstring (4/23 injury; 4/28-5/11 DL, missed two games before DLed and missed a total 14 games); strained neck, bothered him 5/29-6/4, missed 6/8-6/9, 2 games.
• Noah Lowry: strained right oblique (4/6 injury; DL 4/6-5/7 , missing about 4 starts plus the game he left for a total of 5 starts).
• Mike Matheny: concussion due to multiple hits from foul balls (5/30 injury; DL 6/1-present).
• Lance Niekro: (he is close to getting his own wing) soreness in right foot (reported 4/16); bereavement (4/17-4/19); cold and flu (4/30-5/1; 2 games missed); hurt shoulder making tag at first 5/14, bursitis in right shoulder, missed games 5/15-5/20 (DL 5/15-5/29; missed 13 games in total); strained groin 6/8, missed 6/9-10, 2 games, reinjured 6/11, DL 6/11-6/28; missed 15 games).
• Mark Sweeney: tender right hamstring (reported 4/21).
• Brian Wilson: strained right oblique (4/24 injury; DL 4/24-5/21; missed 26 games).
• Tim Worrell: bulging disc in neck (original injury termed pinched nerve, DL 5/23, retroactive to 5/20, DL 5/20-6/6, missed 16 games; DL 7/1, retroactive to June 28, with new diagnosis, missed games 6/28-present).