Cincinnati’s Griffey out at least six weeks

Cincinnati — Ken Griffey Jr. will be out for at least six weeks as he recovers from a dislocated right shoulder.

Griffey landed on the shoulder while diving for a fly ball Saturday, the third straight season that the Reds outfielder has suffered a major injury in March or April.

Dr. Timothy Kremchek popped the shoulder back into place at the ballpark Saturday. X-rays and other tests found no fractures or major injury to the rotator cuff.

Griffey will try to rehabilitate the shoulder rather than have surgery, and optimistically could be playing again in six-to-10 weeks, Kremchek said. There is a possibility that he might have to have surgery anyway.

Martinez leaves game

Arlington, Texas — Edgar Martinez, Seattle’s 40-year-old designated hitter, left Sunday’s game at Texas with a mild strain of his left hamstring. Martinez, who missed two months after rupturing his left hamstring tendon last season, is expected to be out three to five days.

O’s honor war veterans, Purple Heart recipient

Baltimore — Staff Sgt. Tarik Jackson, a Purple Heart honoree wounded in Iraq last month, was among eight injured war veterans who attended Sunday’s Baltimore-Boston game as guests of Orioles owner Peter Angelos.

Jackson, on a day pass from a recuperative stay at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, was invited by Angelos to sit in the owner’s private box at Camden Yards.

Jackson was shot three times when his convoy was ambushed.

Indians’ Sabathia has elbow examined

Cleveland — C.C. Sabathia is one of the few Cleveland pitchers to avoid the disabled list the past three years. That might change soon.

Sabathia had his injured left elbow examined by doctors Sunday, one day after he was forced to leave a start in the seventh inning at Kansas City.

Indians general manager Mark Shapiro declined to comment on the extent of Sabathia’s injury.

“I’m not going to say anything without having anything (reports) in front of me,” he said.