Tom Glavine has had better weeks. As a matter of fact, some ditch diggers have seen better days than the last couple Glavine has endured, which culminated in a right rib-cage strain that ended last night’s start after just one inning.

“Unfortunately,” Glavine said after the Mets’ 6-3 loss to Milwaukee, “it feels worse now than when I came out of the game.”

It was the third time this season the 37-year-old lefty was pulled from the mound with an injury. On June 22, he departed in the sixth against the Yankees when he took a Derek Jeter line drive in the chest. On June 5 he pitched only one inning with an inflamed left elbow against the Brewers, who last night hit the Mets with their fourth straight loss.

Art Howe described Glavine’s injury as a “strained oblique muscle.” Glavine said he injured it on a change-up that Richie Sexson, the fourth batter he faced, singled to center.

Glavine was coming off two straight losses and was trying to shake off the frustration rooted in a bogus published report earlier this week that said he was trying to run Mike Piazza out of town.

“It’s kind of one thing after another,” said Glavine, who will be re-evaluated today and is in danger of missing his next scheduled start. “It stinks.”

Glavine allowed two hits and no runs on 19 pitches before the injury ended his night. He faced six batters in his lone inning of work and actually got the Brewers out four times, thanks to a catcher-interference call that prolonged the inning after Brady Clark caught a piece of Vance Wilson’s mask.