Monday, May 23, 2011

Phillies to enable Utley Monday, reserving Blanton

Philadelphia - Second goal player Phillies Chase Utley will be activated off the coast of the list of persons with disabilities 15 days before the Monday game against Cincinnati.


Five time All-Star Game returns to the team Sunday. Utley has not played this season because of tendonitis in his right knee.


He played in his fourth straight rehab game Saturday night at Single-A Clearwater. It frappe.281 with a homer in nine games.


Utley declined comment before the match on Sunday against Texas. Utley met with head coach Scott Sheridan and Michael Ciccotti team physician.


Utley said after games rehab that he felt great.


The Phillies will place also transferred Joe Blanton on the list of persons with disabilities and will recall righty Vance Worley. The Phillies option player Pete Orr-2007 Lehigh Valley.


Blanton is 1-2 with a 5.50 ERA in six starts this season. The 30-year-old male was a late scratch in his last scheduled start, on May 19 against the Rockies of Colorado, with pain in his throwing elbow.


Worley was 2-0 with a 1.13 ERA in four games with the Phillies in 2011.

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