HOUSTON — Stubbing one's toe hardly qualifies as a freak occurrence. And nothing hurts more with less long-lasting consequence. Unless you are Gabe White.

        If you are Gabe White, you break the little toe on your right foot when you stub it, and you wind up on the 15-day disabled list.

        The Reds' left-handed reliever stubbed his toe Friday morning on a pullout bed whose post happened to be covered with a blanket that had fallen on the floor.

        You didn't have to be there to imagine the grimace or the wail.

        The accident had slipped under the media's radar screens Friday because White hadn't gotten an X-ray until later in the day, and he wasn't needed in that night's 6-3 loss.

        But the dead giveaway came Saturday when right-hander Jose Rijo, who is recovering from soreness in his pitching shoulder, said he was foregoing his previously announced one or two more pitching sessions and would be activated immediately.

        The injury reminds some of Dizzy Dean, who broke his toe in an All-Star career, tried to come back too quickly, altered his delivery to compensate and never regained his former stature.

        Even Reds manager Bob Boone invoked Dean's name Saturday.

        “You can't land; you can't cover first,” Boone said of the effects of the injury.

        White wasn't available for comment.

        Rijo said he will work out of the bullpen for the time being. The Reds brass was thrilled with his sideline pitching Thursday.

        Boone asked Rijo if he was really Jose Rijo, or his “twin brother,” Juan.

        Said Rijo: “I'm Ho-zay; that was my twin brother Hoze-bee.”

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