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CLEARWATER, Fla. - Scott Sheridan watched Brad Lidge deliver the pitch. He saw Lidge grimace and immediately favor his right leg.

In an instant, the computer chip inside Sheridan's head was activated.

Get to the athlete. Find out where the pain is. Determine a possible injury. Get him safely off the field. Begin the appropriate treatment.

This was the scene Saturday morning in Phillies camp. A piece of cartilage popped in Lidge's right knee, and Sheridan, the team's athletic trainer, sprang into action, guided not by an actual computer chip but by years of education, medical training and experience.

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