Ken Griffey Jr. still out of lineup with stiff, swollen knee

Getting the regular Mariners DH into the lineup is becoming a challenge these final weeks of the 2009 season. Ken Griffey Jr. was proclaimed healthy and ready to go after an MRI earlier this week. But after one game here in the series opener, his knee has now been too swollen to go the last two days...and counting. Remember, he missed a week of action prior to that. I asked manager Don Wakamatsu whether there was any problem that could be "fixed'' in Griffey's knee. "All of the reports were that nothing was serious in there, that the inflammation would go down and he'd be fine,'' Wakamatsu said. "I think we were all kind of shocked yesterday that it stiffened up on him a little bit. Again, I don't have all the medical (reports). Whether it's something that's going to require something in the off-season, or not. But right now, we feel that if we can get the inflammation out of there, he'll be able to play the rest of the year....