Your 2006 Giants: Injury List Update, as of August 1st

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 August 1st, 2006:

• 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); left hamstring injury (7/24 injury, missed games 3 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; bruised left knee, HBP (7/22 injury; missed X games); fouled ball off left foot 7/29 (missed 1 game, 7/30)
• 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).