BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Muscle Strain Puts Felix on Disabled List

The Angels’ struggling offense will be without its leading run-producer for at least two weeks after Junior Felix was placed on the 15-day disabled list Thursday with a strained left groin muscle.

Felix was disabled retroactive to Wednesday. Catcher Lance Parrish, who was on the DL because of bone spurs in his right elbow, was activated and was in the lineup at designated hitter Thursday. Parrish will try to play through lingering pain, attempting to put off the surgery he expects will be necessary.

Felix, whose 31 runs batted in lead the team, was injured during Tuesday’s game, when he caught a spike in the outfield grass on an awkward attempted catch.

Interim Manager John Wathan called Felix’s injury hard to gauge, saying the center fielder might be unable to play for six to 12 days. If it were late in the season, Wathan said the team might not have put him on the DL.

Felix appeared in only 66 games last season, missing the bulk of the season because of a slow-healing calf strain.

Parrish, 35, who is in the final year of his contract, met Wednesday with Dan O’Brien, senior vice president for baseball operations, to discuss his situation as affected by his injury.

Parrish said he might be inclined to undergo surgery now if his future with the team were not so uncertain. As it is, he said, he feels he needs to prove himself.

“I tried to find out if there was anything he could tell me to help me make a decision,” Parrish said. “There’s nothing they can say, or are willing to say.”

Parrish said he decided to try to play through the injury.

“I feel I have to give it a shot.”

Boston’s Wade Boggs, who left Wednesday’s game with a sore right elbow after a first-inning strikeout, did not start Thursday. He was examined Thursday evening by Angel team orthopedist Lewis Yocum, who diagnosed inflammation of the nerve in the elbow. Boggs injured the elbow last week on a fielding play and is considered day-to-day. . . . The Angels’ Jim Abbott, who has been bothered off and on by a blister on his left thumb, had to have the blister taped during his pregame workout. The blister also bothered him during Tuesday’s start.