Elbow Pain Persists For Rockies’ Walker

With season-ending elbow surgery looking more likely, Larry Walker has hired a personal trainer and a nutritionist in an attempt to end his annual injury woes.

Walker, on the disabled list since Aug. 21, hoped to return to the Colorado Rockies’ lineup this week but complained of pain in his right elbow after taking batting practice and playing catch Saturday.

Although no decision had been made, arthroscopic surgery probably will be required to remove a bone spur from Walker’s elbow, which has plagued him throughout the season.

“That’s been discussed,” Walker said Monday. “I think it might happen. I don’t know when, if it’s now or at the end of the season. I’m still in the dark on everything.”

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For 25 years, the left-field foul pole at Fenway Park has reminded Boston fans of Carlton Fisk. Now there’s something along the right-field line to remember him.

The Red Sox retired Fisk’s No. 27, hanging it on the right-field facade with the retired numbers of Bobby Doerr (1), Joe Cronin (4), Carl Yastrzemski (8) and Ted Williams (9), as well as Jackie Robinson (42). Fisk is the only native New Englander among the bunch.

“It was like I was somebody important,” Fisk said. “I think when you play, you never really realize the impact you had.”

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Houston Astro backup catcher Tony Eusebio is scheduled to have shoulder surgery today at Methodist Hospital in Houston. . . . New York Yankee center fielder Bernie Williams left Monday night’s game with Kansas City after one inning because of soreness in his rib cage. . . . The Royals activated Carlos Beltran, last year’s American League rookie of the year who has feuded with the club since going on the disabled list two months ago. . . . Tampa Bay activated third baseman Vinny Castilla from the disabled list and recalled right-handed pitchers Dan Wheeler and Travis Harper from triple-A Durham. . . . Texas plans to call up Ruben Sierra, 34, who led triple-A Oklahoma this season with 18 homers and 82 runs bated in.