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Monday, July 11, 1988 DAILY SPORTS news' 51 By JACK O'CONNELL .1 Aguilera, whose record fell to 0-4 with an 8.41 ERA in the Mets' 6-3 loss Saturday, went on the DL April 19 after two starts. Since his return June 18, Aguilera has made six appearances, all but one in relief, and allowed 11 earned runs, 14 hits and seven walks in innings. Time to consider "We had to do something sooner or later, perhaps during the All-Star ELBOW CREASE: Rick Aguilera sees surges as the solution to his aching right elbow. MM KAPPOCK DAILY NEWS break, Johnson said. "It was obvious to me Aggie was still having trouble.

He tried to pitch through the pain, maybe because of the innuendos last lXXXrlliWI year, but he's hurting." 3 Last year, several teammates ques Daily News Sports Writer HOUSTON Pain persists in Rick Aguilera's troubling pitching elbow, and his patience has run out. The righthander thinks he should undergo arthroscopic surgery, which could shelve him for the remainder of the season. A decision on Aguilera won't be made until he is examined today by James Parkes, the Mets' team physician. With Aguilera out, the Mets shored up their relief corps by obtaining righthander Edwin Nunez from the Seattle Mariners for reliever Gene Walter. Powwow with Davey Aguilera, disabled for two months this season and four months last year due to elbow problems, met with Davey Johnson before yesterday's game here to notify the manager that he was continuing to have pain.

"It's just not getting any better," Aguilera said. "In fact, it's worse. I did everything the doctors wanted me to do rest, exercise, taking different medications and nothing has helped. I think it's time we did something about it I'm not helping the team, and I'm not helping myself." "Aggie is probably going to have the elbow scoped," Johnson said. "We'll have to see what the doctors say." tioned if Aguilera had a low pain threshold and if he was willing to push himself.

That was not the case this time. Until yesterday, Aguilera made no issue of his physical condi tion. "It had to be addressed because of how it affected our pitching setup," said Johnson. "Aggie was in the pen, but I couldn't use him every day. I still had to treat him like a starter and use him only on his scheduled days to throw." The Mets began the season with Aguilera as the fifth starter and have weathered his injury because of the emergence of David Cone, who pitched himself onto the National League All-Star team.

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