05/05/2006 11:31 PM ET Alou sprains ankle, headed for DL Hot-hitting outfielder could be lost for longer than 15 days By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com Moises Alou was removed from the field on a cart after spraining his right ankle. (Gene J. Puskar/AP) PHILADELPHIA -- Moises Alou left the building on crutches Friday night and the news for the San Francisco Giants was not good. The veteran right fielder will go on the 15-day disabled list with a moderately sprained right ankle and could be gone for longer than that, Giants head trainer Stan Conte said. Alou sprained the ankle as he attempted to catch a foul fly ball off the bat of Phillies third baseman David Bell near the right-field corner at Citizens Bank Park during the third inning of the Giants' resounding 8-3 loss to the surging Phils, who have won six in a row. Alou was immediately attended to by Conte and was removed from the field on the back of a cart. X-rays of the ankle were negative, said Conte, who added that Alou would undergo an MRI when the considerable swelling begins to diminish during the middle of next week. "We won't know for a couple of days yet how long it's going to be," Conte said after the Giants lost for the fifth time in their last six games. "I think it's safe to say it's going to be more than 15 days. We'll look at that early next week. Ankle sprains are kind of strange things to begin with. Some that look pretty bad respond pretty quickly. Others don't look very bad and they last for six weeks." Alou has been one of the hottest hitters on the team and during the top of the third inning had driven in his 25th run of the season with a single. The run- producing ground hit to left came after Phillies right-hander Gavin Floyd intentionally walked Barry Bonds, the cleanup hitter, to put runners on first and second. Alou, the No. 5 hitter, has nine RBIs the last four times opposing teams have walked Bonds on a pair of three-run homers, a two-run single and Friday night's safety. He's hitting .378 with three doubles and seven home runs and will be replaced in the lineup by Steve Finley, the center fielder who was obtained this offseason in a trade with the Angels just in case either Bonds or Alou went out for any considerable period of time. Bonds has now walked intentionally 13 times and the Giants have scored 22 runs after those gift strolls this season. Bonds, who was 0-for-3 on Friday night and is 0-for-7 since he hit homer No. 712 in his last at-bat Tuesday against the Padres in San Francisco, left the clubhouse just after the last pitch and was not available to comment. Alou, his ankle heavily taped, also declined to comment. "I'm not talking tonight," he said. On the play during which the injury occurred, Bell sliced an 0-1 pitch tossed by Giants right-hander Matt Cain down the right-field line in a spot where there is only 12 feet between the foul line and the green padded wall. Alou stumbled and twisted his ankle while attempting to make the catch. He laid flat on his face for several minutes as Conte and a number of Giants, including his father, manager Felipe Alou, headed out to the scene. Before he was loaded on the cart, Alou turned over and sat upright as Conte worked on his lower right leg. Conte asked for the cart immediately. "He knew there was something wrong with his lower leg, and that was good enough for me," Conte said. The elder Alou, who was one of the last to get there, said the incident was eerily similar to an injury his son had suffered on Sept. 16, 1993, when both were with the Montreal Expos. Playing against the Cardinals in Busch Stadium, Moises Alou dislocated his left ankle and fractured the left fibula when his spikes caught in the artificial turf as he rounded first base. Alou underwent surgery two days later and missed the remainder of that season. "He said he had the same feeling he had in St. Louis when he broke it," Felipe Alou said. "In St. Louis, when it happened, I really didn't want to get there . This time, I hated that it happened once already. I thought it might be a factor. But it's the ankle in the other leg." This time, the younger Alou stumbled on the clay warning track when he went down, the ball rolling away free. "The ground was really soft there where it happened," the manager said. "I can only imagine that he twisted at some point getting to the wall, stopping before he hit the wall," said Conte, who added that hadn't seen the replay. "He doesn't really recall what happened. His foot was underneath the pad when I got there. I don't know if it got stuck there or just ended up there." Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. -- MAKING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER MACOTO BANK --

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