Glavine’s season ends

Atlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine is out for the season, and his illustrious career could be over if he needs major surgery on his injured left elbow.

The 42-year-old Glavine still hopes to return next year – unless he needs elbow ligament replacement surgery.

A 300-game winner, Glavine said Saturday he will be examined by Dr. James Andrews next week in Alabama. Glavine, placed on the disabled list Friday with a torn flexor tendon in his left elbow, plans to have surgery to repair the tendon.

He said he’d give up his comeback hopes for 2009 if Andrews determines the pitcher needs the ligament replacement procedure, known as Tommy John surgery.

Rehabilitation after that procedure often takes at least a year.

Yankees wait on two

Yankees manager Joe Girardi was optimistic that injured right-hander Joba Chamberlain could be back soon, but a timetable still hasn’t been set.

The same goes for designated hitter Hideki Matsui, who homered in Class A Tampa’s doubleheader Friday and went 1 for 3 Saturday. He’s expected to return to New York today.

Chamberlain is on the 15-day disabled list with rotator cuff tendinitis in his pitching shoulder.

Matsui has been out since June 27 with a left knee injury.

Upton benched again

Tampa Bay Rays center fielder B.J. Upton was benched for the second time in less than two weeks for failing to run hard on a double-play grounder in the sixth inning of Friday night’s 7-0 victory over Texas.

Upton said after the game that he thought there were two outs.

Wagner feels pain

Billy Wagner felt discomfort in his pitching elbow after throwing a simulated game and the New York Mets’ closer won’t come off the disabled list Monday as expected.

Ex-Phillies player dies

Darrin Winston, who pitched briefly for the Philadelphia Phillies in the late 1990s, has died from leukemia. He was 42.

Winston was diagnosed with the disease this week and died Friday in Freehold, N.J.