"After two pain-numbing shots Sunday morning didn't help matters, Braves closer Billy Wagner conceded Sunday he wouldn't be able to pitch this round or the next.

The Braves substituted reliever Takashi Saito on the roster for him for the rest of the division series. By rule, Wagner won't be eligible to pitch in the National League Championship Series. But his strained left oblique wasn't going to let him anyway.

Wagner, 39 and fifth all-time on the career saves list (422), is left to wonder if he's pitched the last game of his 16-year-career. He had delayed retirement one more year for a shot at his first trip to the World Series. Now it will take that from the Braves to give him a chance to even get back out on the mound.

"Depends on my teammates now," Wagner said in a press conference before Sunday's game. "…In a week, couple days, maybe it's different. So we'll just keep pushing along and see what happens, and hopefully I'll get lucky."

Either way, he's prepared to face the fact that he might have thrown his last pitch. It was remarkable that he even got the pitch off at all, considering he had just strained his oblique trying to field an Edgar Renteria bunt."