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WASHINGTON -- New York Mets pitcher Steven Matz has a bone spur in his left elbow and will have his next start pushed back from Wednesday to Thursday.Mets general manager Sandy Alderson says the 25-year-old lefty will continue pitching through the bone spur because doctors have assured the team he cannot do damage to it. The decision to push him back to face the Cubs was made to give him a day of extra rest and medication.Hes going to have to deal with it because its not going away, Mets manager Terry Collins said Tuesday.If Matz were to undergo surgery to remove the spur, it would keep him out three months and effectively end his season. Thats all the more motivation for Matz to power through the discomfort.Its something that, as long as they feel comfortable with me being out there with the way Im pitching, then I think Im going to battle through it, Matz said. Thats the mindset: Get it all behind me and just go out there and pitch.Matz is 7-3 with a 3.29 ERA this season and has been dealing with some discomfort for a few starts. The Mets will continue to monitor his status on a start-by-start basis.Theres a lot of signs to look at, Collins said. Youve got to take a look at location, is his velocity still up, is he using his secondary pitches. If his elbow starts to bother him, he backs off those secondary (pitches) because of the wear and tear that it takes to throw them. ... Certainly weve got to stay on top of it.Logan Verrett will start in the series finale against the Washington Nationals on Wednesday. Collins said the rest of the rotation will stay on schedule with an extra day of rest.Matz will have to have the spur removed at some point, Alderson said. Thats not the case for right-hander Noah Syndergaard, who also dealing with one in his pitching elbow, but Alderson said its less significant than Matzs.Alderson and Collins said Syndergaard struggling in a loss to the Nationals on Monday had nothing to do with the elbow and dont expect it to be an ongoing question.Theres really no change in status on Noah, Alderson said. Its a very small spur that may exist with 90 percent of the pitchers that are throwing in Major League Baseball today.Alderson said that first baseman Lucas Duda is about two weeks away from resuming baseball activities. Hes out long term with a stress fracture in his lower back.Zack Wheeler threw Monday in Port St. Lucie, Florida, Alderson said, and theres no time frame on when the right-hander will be ready to return. Without Wheeler and with Matz and Syndergaard not 100 percent, the Mets will tax their bullpen more but are confident in their rotation.We have a less-than-perfect situation right now with the people that we have, Alderson said. Its certainly not ideal. But every team deals with this. Were still in pretty good shape.Larry Murphy Penguins Jersey . Scott won the Australian PGA last week in his first event in Australia since winning the U.S. Masters in April. American Matt Kuchar, ahead by two strokes with four to play and even with Scott with one to go, double-bogeyed the 18th after taking two shots to get out of a bunker. Paul Coffey Jersey .5 million, one-year contract on Friday. Hawkins, who turns 41 in December, will compete with Rex Brothers for the closers role at spring training. http://www.penguinsauthenticofficial.com/paul-martin-jersey/ . PETERSBURG, Fla. Ron Francis Penguins Jersey . Its the second straight game Bell has scored in extra time for Kelowna, which beat the Brandon Wheat Kings 6-5 on Friday, and he now has four game-winning goals on the season. Tom Barrasso Jersey . -- About a third of the way through the regular season, the Washington Wizards are at .WACO, Texas -- Bill Menefee, whose tenure as?Baylor?athletic director included a Southwest Conference football championship?and five bowl trips for the Bears, has died. He was 95.The university said Menefee died Thursday in Waco.Menefee served as Baylors AD from 1980-92, a stretch when the Bears won the 1980 conference title. He had a 149-144 record as the mens basketball coach from 1961-73.The native of tiny Grandfalls, Texas, first went to Baylor iin 1947 as a physical education instructor.ddddddddddddHe also was an assistant coach and oversaw freshman teams.Menefee was with the U.S. Marines in the Pacific during World War II, and served three months in Okinawa. He was awarded a Purple Heart. His wife, Dorothy, died in 2012 after they had been married for 69 years. ' ' '