Less than a week after being told he probably would need surgery on his ailing pitching elbow, Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Chris Capuano decided to try rehabilitation that would allow him to play this season.

The Brewers placed the left-hander on the 15-day disabled list Thursday, retroactive to March 21. He will try rehabbing his left elbow for the next three to four weeks.

The decision came after Capuano visited with Dr. James Andrews on Wednesday in Birmingham, Ala., and underwent a second MRI. Andrews performed Capuano's first elbow ligament replacement surgery in 2002.

Capuano was told Sunday he has a torn ligament in his pitching elbow and probably needs Tommy John surgery for the second time in his career.

The 29-year-old Capuano injured his elbow last week. He had an MRI last Thursday, and team physician William Raasch confirmed the diagnosis of a torn ulnar collateral ligament.

Brewers, Cubs tie in Arizona finale

Alfonso Soriano hit a three-run homer for Chicago, Mike Cameron homered for Milwaukee and the Cubs and Brewers wrapped up their Arizona spring schedules with a 10-10 tie in 10 innings in Mesa.

Both teams sent mostly minor leaguers to the mound, and the Brewers started pulling their position players in the third inning. They didn't bother to stick around for the ending, either. Dressed in suits and toting suitcases, the regulars emerged from the third base dugout after the top of the eighth and strolled up the right-field line toward the exit.

The Brewers' J.J. Hardy seemed fine after being sidelined since March 17 by a bacterial infection. He had two hits, including a double, and scored twice.