Dodgers notes: Adrian Gonzalez ready to test his troubled back

LOS ANGELES >> Adrian Gonzalez is ready to find out."It feels good," the Dodgers first baseman said of the back injury that sent him to the DL. "I'm not playing in pain. But I haven't been playing baseball games."Gonzalez hasn't played a baseball game since June 11. Since then, he has two examinations on the herniated disc in his back, received an epidural injection to relieve the pain and gone through countless hours of physical therapy and core-strengthening exercises.