Phillies reliever Brad Lidge is hoping to return next week when the team battles the Braves. "They haven't let me get that far in planning," Lidge said of playing in a series that begins Monday, "but it does look that way." Lidge threw 25 fastballs in a bullpen session Tuesday, his first work off a mound since the Phillies' medical staff injected his inflamed right elbow with a shot of cortisone on May 17.