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Padres put Brian Giles on DL

SAN DIEGO (UPI) -- San Diego has placed right fielder Brian Giles on the 15-day disabled list with a bone bruise in his right knee.

The move is retroactive to May 20.

On the Padres' Web site, the 36-year-old Giles said he believes he was hurt in mid-April when he banged it in a game against the Cubs at Chicago's Wrigley Field. The injury did not improve and his statistics declined.

"For a while, it was only when I was decelerating that it would bother me a bit," he said. "But it got to the point that it was getting a bit cranky when I was accelerating. Hopefully, it will calm down."

Giles is batting .276 this season with one home run and 12 RBI in 170 at-bats.

He is a .294 career hitter with 261 homers and 953 RBI.

Copyright 2007 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 05/27/2007

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