PHILADELPHIA -- While the Phillies fans were atwitter about All-Star Chase Utley's surgically repaired right hand and their club's tenuous grip on the wild-card race, Jim Tracy sat back in the visiting manager's office and rattled off the Pirates' lengthy, though less topical, injury list.

	MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT Friday's results INDIANAPOLIS (53-52) won at Columbus, 13-2. RHP Runelvys Hernandez (1-6, 3.66) allowed one run and eight hits in six innings. 3B Jose Hernandez (.259) went 4 for 4 with two doubles and two RBIs. LF Michael Ryan (.271) went 2 for 5 with two doubles, a walk and two RBIs. SS Brian Bixler (.289) went 1 for 4 with a double, a walk and two RBIs. ALTOONA (54-49) won at Akron, 8-6. RHP Kip Bouknight (9-3, 3.83) allowed four runs in 6 1/3 innings. 1B Steve Pearce (.337) hit his 25th home run -- 14th with the Curve -- and went 2 for 4 with a double and two RBIs. CF Andrew McCutchen (.248) went 3 for 5 with an RBI. 3B Neil Walker (.297) went 1 for 5 with an RBI. LYNCHBURG (44-56) won at Myrtle Beach, 7-5. LHP Kyle Bloom (9-8, 4.51) allowed three runs in six innings. C Steve Lerud (.205) went 1 for 2 with a triple, a walk and four RBIs. HICKORY (50-53) lost to Lake County, 11-3, ending its 10-game winning streak. RHP Brad Clapp (5-8, 5.80) allowed four runs in four-plus innings. CF Alex Presley (.294) hit his ninth home run and went 2 for 5 with three RBIs and a steal. STATE COLLEGE (18-18) beat Auburn, 2-1. RHP Duke Welker (1-1, 2.61) allowed one run in five innings. RHP Brian Tracy (2.20), son of Pirates manager Jim Tracy, pitched three-plus scoreless innings of relief. 3B Robert Spain (.219) went 2 for 3 with two doubles and an RBI. BRADENTON (13-18) was off.

Tom Gorzelanny played catch yesterday in Philadelphia.

Zach Duke played catch in Florida.

Jose Bautista hit off a tee n Florida.

Chris Duffy ran on solid ground there as well.

And Adam LaRoche still had trouble in his tummy.

Didn't seem to have the same hold on a populace as Utley's fourth metacarpal, repaired in surgery yesterday morning, only hours after it was fractured by a Washington Nationals pitch. After all, Comcast Sportsnet locally broadcast a live pregame news conference about Utley's hand, which doctors predict could require four weeks to heal.

Utley's absence, what with the team starting last night two games behind in the wild-card race, caused the Phillies to acquire Chicago White Sox second baseman Tadahito Iguchi in exchange for minor-league right-hander Michael Dubee, the son of their pitching coach, Rich Dubee.

Meanwhile, back to the Pirates maladies:

Gorzelanny, who exited in the third inning Tuesday because of a stiff left shoulder, had a game of catch with pitching coach Jim Colborn, the two about 100 feet apart, long-tossing for 15 minutes or so. "Felt fine," was how Gorzelanny described it. That was precisely how Tracy described it, too: "He was fine. He felt fine." The two paths diverged a bit from there.

Tracy said his team's victory leader (9-6) and starter ERA leader (3.55) will throw his routine bullpen session today at Citizens Bank Park, though Gorzelanny wasn't completely prepared to commit to that.

"Don't know yet for sure," Gorzelanny said.

Added Tracy: "We'll see how everything goes before we put our stamp on whether he'll be the starting pitcher" Tuesday. The Pirates' off-day Monday could allow them to readjust the rotation.

Duke, inactive for two weeks under doctors' orders because of an irritation in the ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow, resumed Monday a long-tossing regimen every other day through next weekend in Bradenton, Fla. "Felt good. Threw it good, from what I understand," Tracy said of Duke's game of catch yesterday at 60 to 75 feet.

Bautista, the stitches removed from his gashed left hand earlier this week, is scheduled to take live-pitching batting practice from Bradenton staff today. He hit off a tee for a day or so.

"He still has a little soreness in that area when he swings," Tracy said. "It's a little bit weak, which is understandable. He'll take batting practice the next couple of days. After that, we'll see where he's at as far as further involving him in activity."

Duffy, the center fielder rehabilitating a sprained ankle, is off treadmill work and back on the ground running. "He's doing OK. Progressing," Tracy said.

And LaRoche, who sat out Thursday's game in which replacement Josh Phelps clubbed a two-run homer and added another RBI in a 3-for-4 showing, was "still feeling pretty icky," in Tracy's words.

"It's not as good today as I thought it would be, but it's a little better," LaRoche said before a little pregame exercise.

Phelps, who was in the lineup just twice since being claimed off waivers June 22, found himself in the starting lineup last night for the second consecutive night.

Pirates on national TV
In what is believed to be their first national late-afternoon or evening appearance in a nationally broadcast game in a half-decade, the Pirates will be on Fox Aug. 11 when they visit San Francisco and one Barry Bonds. The game's start has been moved from 9:05 p.m. Pittsburgh time to 3:55 p.m., to accommodate Fox.