Here’s a few injury updates for several Major League players from around the league:

– Dodgers third baseman Casey Blake is currently hospitalized after undergoing surgery on his left elbow for a staph infection and is expected to be sidelined for six weeks, reports Ken Gurnick of MLB.com. Blake underwent a one-hour procedure to remove the infected bursa sac in his left elbow.

– Hong-Chih Kuo is eligible to come off the DL today but will remain on his current rehab assignment, reports Ken Gurnick of MLB.com. Kuo is out with a sore back has been wild and inconsistent in his two rehab appearances.  Tonight in Rancho Cucamonga single-A, Kuo had 2 stikeouts, a single and a line out.

– Daisuke Matsuzaka left Friday’s game with right elbow tightness. “When the game started, I started to feel stiffness in my elbow and I could have continued throwing,” Matsuzaka said through interpreter Kenta Yamada. “I didn’t really feel I needed to pull off from the mound, but I left the judgment up to Tito. That was his decision to come off from the mound.” Before he was removed in the fifth, Matsuzaka was throwing his fastball between 85-87 MPH.

–Zack Greinke who is recovering from a cracked rib sustained while playing basketball, allowed two runs on seven hits in five innings while walking one and striking out seven tonight against the Dodgers Triple-A team.