Foot Puts Canseco on Disabled List

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays put 35-year-old Jose Canseco on the 15-day disabled list because of a strained left foot after a 6-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Saturday. The move is retroactive to Thursday.

Canseco was held out of Friday night’s game. He was in the lineup Saturday but had difficulty running in warmups and was scratched.

“It felt a little better when I started running before BP actually started. Then before the game I went out there and tried to do a little bit more aggressive sprints, and it just got worse,” Canseco said. “I’m not going to try to continue. It is not getting any better.”

Canseco has been slowed by an assortment of injuries all year, but he felt the condition of his left foot was beginning to improve until Saturday.

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The Texas Rangers activated outfielder Rusty Greer from the 15-day disabled list before their game against the Minnesota Twins. Greer had been on the disabled list since April 13 because of a pulled left hamstring, and also underwent surgery for bone spurs on his right ankle April 16.

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The Cleveland Indians put rookie right-handed pitcher Paul Rigdon on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Monday, because of a strained muscle in his side. . . . Darryl Strawberry told the New York Post he won’t appeal his one-year ban from baseball for cocaine. . . . Stephen Laurenzi, a 24-year-old who survived a 60-foot plunge from the upper deck at Yankee Stadium to the screen behind home plate Friday night, was in stable condition at Lincoln Hospital, where he was charged with disorderly conduct and reckless endangerment. . . . Baltimore owner Peter Angelos disputed a charge by Sen. Jesse Helms that his team refuses to sign Cuban defectors.