Here are a few more notes regarding some Major League pitchers:

– To no one’s surprise, Cliff Lee threw a hell of a game today for his third consecutive complete shutout. He limited the Red Sox’s offense to two hits, struck out five and walked two. In June, he has a 0.21 ERA in 42 innings in five starts.

– Mets starter Jonathon Niese underwent, and passed, a battery of tests at Henry Ford Hospital to help determine the cause and nature of his recurring rapid heartbeat reports David Waldstein of the New York Times. The Mets’ assistant GM, John Ricco, said everything seemed fine with Niese’s heart according to the initial results. They’re still waiting the results of one more test, though.

– It appears that Rich Harden will finally pitch this season after being sidelined since Spring Training. Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle tweeted earlier today that Harden will start for the Athletics this Friday.

– Jonathan Broxton will be shut down for at least three weeks with more elbow soreness according to Tony Jackson of ESPN Los Angeles. “We don’t have a timetable now,” Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. “We did this once before, where he was shut down for three weeks and did all the stuff to return, and then we got back here. It’s just hard to say now that we’re going to get him back in six weeks or seven weeks or eight weeks. To me, at this point, if we get him back, great, all the better. But we have to kind of move forward.”

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