BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : Catcher Green on Disabled List

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

If surgery is recommended, Greene, who will be examined by doctors in Southern California 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 ear-splitting fire alarm jarred the Angels from their sleep in their Toronto hotel at 5 a.m. Thursday morning. “I thought maybe the world was coming to an end,” designated hitter Chili Davis said of the wake-up call.

Second baseman Randy Velarde leaned out of his room a little too far and his door shut behind him, locking him out. Other players wandered through hallways, unsure of what to do. But when it turned out to be a false alarm, pitcher Chuck Finley’s decision to remain in bed was justified.

“I wasn’t going to move,” Finley 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, reserve infielder Dick Schofield will probably go. . . . 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 Thursday, ending a two-game slide in which he hadn’t reached base. Salmon has never gone three consecutive games without reaching base.