SF Chronicle: Swollen knee keeps A’s Ellis out of lineup

First off, another injury has cropped up: Second baseman Mark Ellis has missed three of the past four games with a sore right knee. Ellis said he has no idea how the initial injury occurred, probably on a dive, but he’s tried to play through it and “it’s still really swollen,’’ he said.

On Monday, third baseman Eric Chavez told reporters he’d have more information in two days about the triceps tendinitis that has given him trouble lately, but Wednesday, Chavez said he has been asked not to discuss his injuries.
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On Friday, Justin Duchscherer will visit Dr. Thomas Byrd, who performed Jason Isringhausen’s hip surgery last September. Duchscherer said that he does not believe his own problem (an arthritic right hip) is much like Isringhausen’s.
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The A’s obtained outfielder Dee Brown from Arizona for cash considerations and assigned him to Triple-A Sacramento.

So what’s Dee Brown’s injury?  He’s got to have one, right? He is an OFer acquired by Oakland after all…