Bradley will sit again tonight

Right fielder Milton Bradley took a seat on the bench for a second straight game, and manager Lou Piniella said Monday that Bradley will not start tonight, either.

Piniella has begun working with the struggling Bradley on his left-handed swing. Bradley entered Monday batting .201 (32-for-159) left-handed and .333 (21-for-63) right-handed.

"What we need for this young man to do is just relax," Piniella said on his WGN radio pregame show. The manager added that he worked on a "couple" of mechanical things with Bradley, but "nothing drastic."

As for Bradley, he apparently didn't have much to say.

"It went," cubs.com quoted him as saying. "That's all I care to elaborate."

More coaching: Outfielder Kosuke Fukudome has his hitting coach from Japan, Kyosuke Sasaki, in Philadelphia. The plan is for Sasaki to help augment what the Cubs' coaching staff is doing with Fukudome, who entered Monday 6-for-12 on the trip.

"I'm going to hang around and see what they're talking about," Piniella told his WGN audience. "I'll need two interpreters."

Catch this: Cubs catchers entered Monday 23-for-72 in throwing out basestealers. That 31.9 percent success rate was best in the NL and fourth in the big leagues. Koyie Hill was 7-for-18 for 39.9 percent.