BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : Catcher Greene May Have Broken Wrist

Triple-A catcher Todd Greene, Baseball Weekly’s 1995 minor league player of the year, has been put on the disabled list because of a possible fracture of a bone in his left wrist, an injury he suffered while checking a swing in Vancouver’s game Tuesday.

If surgery is recommended, Greene, who will be examined by Angel doctors in Southern California on Monday, will be out for about six weeks. Greene, who hit 40 home runs in 1995 and is considered one of the Angels’ top two prospects, was batting .214 in four games this season.

“It’s a serious injury in that he’ll lose some valuable time to develop,” General Manager Bill Bavasi said. “But it shouldn’t hinder him in the future.”

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An incessant, ear-splitting, 5 a.m. fire alarm jarred Angel players from their sleep in their Toronto hotel Thursday morning. “I thought maybe the world was coming to an end,” designated hitter Chili Davis said.

Pitcher Chuck Finley remained in bed.

“I wasn’t going to move,” he said. “If it was a real fire they would have found me in bed, all ashes. I wasn’t going to get up until someone stuck an ax through my door.”

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The Angels will activate pitcher Scott Sanderson after tonight’s game in Detroit and plug him into the rotation Saturday, but Manager Marcel Lachemann was still undecided Thursday as to which player would be sent to Vancouver to make room for Sanderson. If he sticks with a 10-man pitching staff, reliever Ken Edenfield would likely be sent down. If he goes with 11 pitchers, infielder Dick Schofield will probably be moved. . . . After failing to throw a runner out in six previous tries, catcher Jorge Fabregas threw out Otis Nixon at third in the first inning and Alex Gonzalez at second in the fourth Thursday night. . . . Tim Salmon singled in the first inning, ending a two-game slide in which he hadn’t reached base via hit, walk or hit by pitch for only the seventh time in his career. Salmon has never gone three consecutive games without reaching base.