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Ace relief pitcher Rollie Fingers will be sidelined for...

MILWAUKEE -- Ace relief pitcher Rollie Fingers will be sidelined for 'three to five days' with a slight muscle tear in his right forearm, said Milwaukee Brewers manager Harvey Kuenn.

Fingers' injury is one of three for the American League East leaders.

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Leftfielder Ben Oglivie was out of Friday night's lineup after receiving cortisone shots Friday for bone bruises between the thumb and second finger of both hands. Trainer Freddie Frederico said the injury is due to the pressure Oglivie puts on his hands from his swing.

Oglivie is also expected to miss today's games against the California Angels.

Pitcher Moose Haas sprained his right wrist warming up for the seventh inning of the Brewers' first game of a Thursday double-header against the Cleveland Indians. Brewer team physician Paul Jacobs said the wrist was fine. Haas, however, said he still felt some pain in it.

Fingers' injury came in the ninth inning of Thursday's first game. After feeling a twinge in the forearm on several pitches, he left the game with an 0-2 count on Cleveland's Andre Thornton.

'Right now it's ice, ice and more ice until the pain goes away and then we start with the heat,' said Fingers, who leads the Brewers with 29 saves. 'It felt fine while I was warming up, but then on the second or third hitter of the eighth inning, it started to tighten up. It tightened up a little more after that. I knew I shouldn't throw at all. It was time to close up shop.'

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Fingers' injury is not in the elbow that has troubled him for the last two weeks. He has received two cortisone shots for the pain there.

'For now, I'll just run and ice it,' Fingers said. 'That seems to be all I've been doing the last two weeks.'

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