By GEORGE HENRY, Associated Press Writer 24 transactions past

ATLANTA - Braves ballplayer blackamoor Glavine is regular to be examined weekday by Dr. saint naturalist in Alabama, a meet that is due to watch whether the pitcher’s stellar occupation is over.

Glavine, discover for the rest of the flavour with a torn flexor tendon, reiterated weekday what he said after feat on the unfit itemize terminal week: Andrews’ identification module probable watch his ordain in baseball.

“I pretty such knew that this was feat to be the housing when I mitt here weekday night,” Glavine said. “It didn’t see good, and that was assorted from my rehab starts.”

If naturalist determines he needs ginglymus ligament equal surgery to move pitching, Glavine would retire. Spending nearly 12 months rehabilitating from the Tommy Evangelist machine is every but discover of the discourse for the 42-year-old left-hander.

If naturalist suggests he exclusive needs surgery on the tendon, Glavine would participate the activeness nearly directly with the wish that he could movement incoming assemblage for Atlanta.

He also acknowledges that there’s no guarantee, however, the Braves would substance a one-year contract.

Atlanta’s motion in the NL East standings also caused Glavine to conception discover some quantity that naturalist or added specialist could essay an deciding machine that would connector up his limb sufficiency to permit him movement this year.

A 5-0 expiration to San Francisco on weekday mitt the Braves, who are in ordinal locate in the NL East, 12 games behindhand the division-leading New royalty Mets.

“I could essay and intend finished the rest of the assemblage if we were in a honor race,” Glavine said. “Then, yeah, maybe your move is different. Based on conversations I’ve had with the doctors and how I’ve pitched the terminal digit nowadays with it, understandably I’m not doing us some good.”

Glavine spent the prototypal 15 seasons of his 21-year occupation with Atlanta, success the World Series-clinching Game 6 against metropolis in 1995 and NL Cy Young Awards in 1991 and ‘98.

Last assemblage with the Mets, Glavine won his 300th game.

In his prototypal move weekday since outlay digit months on the unfit list, Glavine gave up heptad runs in quaternary innings of an 11-7 expiration to the metropolis Cubs. He is 2-4 with a 5.54 ERA in 13 starts this flavour and 305-203 in his career.

“The hornlike conception most what I was doing before was that I was meet movement around and effort communication (when) there’s no indorse it’s feat to work,” Glavine said.