"Reds third baseman Scott Rolen is not ready to call it a season.

"I'm not shutting it down," he said. "But we are running out of time."

Rolen, on disabled list recovering from Aug. 3 surgery on his left shoulder, has not taken batting practice since Aug. 31 when he admittedly overdid it.

"I kind of got banged up in that BP round," Rolen said. "I never really came out of it. So I saw doc (team doctor Timothy Kremchek Monday), he evaluated it and went through a bunch of things. He seems to think – I'm not putting words in his mouth – for the first time in five years I'm using ranges of motion that have not used on both ends – back and forward.

"When I got turned loose to start swinging, I started swinging. I started putting in the workload to play. I wasn't going to have a rehab assignment. I took way too many swings. I felt good. I want to re-enforce good habits.""