San Diego Padres After three workouts and one 10-minute throwing session off the mound, Ed Whitson said yesterday that his surgically repaired right elbow is healthy again.

That punctuation is reserved for Hundley, whose surgically repaired right elbow could hold the key to how far the Dodgers go.

Pena, who led the Pirates with seven saves, was given his outright release before the game after reinjuring his surgically repaired right elbow.

John Franco, who has experienced repeated discomfort in his surgically repaired left elbow during the season's first two weeks, was examined yesterday by the Mets' team doctor and found to have no major problems.

Todd Hundley left the Mets today for his Port St. Lucie, Fla., home to continue rehabilitating his surgically repaired right elbow.

All the 24-year-old outfielder can do is wait for the pain in his surgically repaired right elbow to subside.

Hundley has said that he wants to catch again, but he is not sure when his surgically repaired right elbow would allow it.

Philadelphia has not lost since the N.B.A.'s reigning most valuable player, Allen Iverson, returned from rehabilitating his surgically repaired right elbow.

On Sept. 27, he underwent surgery on his shoulder, to repair a small labrum tear, and elbow, to remove bone chips, although neither operation was considered that serious.

His surgically repaired right elbow has held up fine this spring, but tightness in his groin is holding him back.