BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE MAJOR LEAGUES : Sanders Probably Out for at Least a Week

Deion Sanders has a sprained and badly swollen left ankle but apparently no fracture, so the Cincinnati Reds decided not to put him on the disabled list.

Sanders, who will be re-examined by a doctor in Cincinnati when the swelling goes down in several days, is listed as day to day but probably won’t play for at least a week.

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Roger Clemens will make his return to Boston’s rotation tonight after recuperating from a right shoulder strain that kept him out of spring training and the first five weeks of the season.

He breezed through two minor league tuneups and will make his first 1995 Red Sox start against the Seattle Mariners at Fenway Park.

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The New York Yankees claim that Mariner pitcher Randy Johnson deliberately threw at Jim Leyritz in Wednesday night’s game at the Kingdome and they’re planning to get even. The incident caused a 10-minute melee.

Leyritz escaped with a sore wrist and sore face, but promised revenge, saying: “We’ll take care of [Johnson] one way or the other. He’s got to go out in public somewhere.”

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Second baseman Pat Kelly of the Yankees had arthroscopic surgery on his left wrist and will be sidelined four to six weeks. . . . Pittsburgh reliever Jim Gott was put on the 15-day disabled list because of tendinitis in his throwing shoulder, and the Pirates recalled right-hander Gary Wilson from triple-A Calgary. . . . Bruce Ruffin, the Colorado Rockies’ closer, was put on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Monday, because of a sore muscle in his pitching elbow.