Miami — Chipper Jones twisted his right knee taking groundballs in batting practice Tuesday and had to be scratched from the lineup.

Jones said after the game it wasn’t serious and he expected to be out only “a day or two.”

“My foot slipped a little bit, my knee buckled,” Jones said. “Just got a little sprain. It just hurt to hit.”

Jones tried to continue taking batting practice but came out after attempting a turn in the cage.

He entered Tuesday’s game with a .353 batting average, trailing Albert Pujols (.363).

Jones had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee in spring training of 1996, and he sprained a ligament in his right knee two years ago, which forced him to the disabled list.

In 1994, Jones missed what would have been his rookie season after he had surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

Omar Infante replaced Jones at third base and made two errors in the first inning but finished the game with a career-high four hits. Kelly Johnson was added to the lineup at second and also finished with a career-high four hits.

Jones has been on the disabled list this year with a hamstring injury and missed time with a sore quadriceps, back spasms. The Braves are 8-21 in games Jones misses.

Parr’s first call

James Parr had a hard time sleeping Friday night after his final start for Class AAA Richmond, thinking about the possibility of getting his first major-league call-up. So he turned off his cellphone and slept in.

When he woke up, there was a message from Richmond manager Dave Brundage telling him of his promotion.

Parr joined Brent Lillibridge, Corky Miller, Jeff Ridgway, Jorge Julio among the Braves’ September call-ups who met the team in Miami on Tuesday.

“You think about this two or three years ago, about when this day is going to come for you,” Parr said. “When I listened to the voicemail, it’s almost like you can’t believe it. I was nervous right when I heard, then it went away, then I saw the stadium when I got here and nerves came back.”

Parr, 22, grew up in Albuquerque, N.M., and saw only a couple of major-league games as a kid — at the stadium now known as Rangers Ballpark in Arlington and at Coors Field.

Parr will begin his first major-league stint in the bullpen, but will likely get a spot start before long.

“We’ll see,” manager Bobby Cox said. “We might get him a start and see how he does.”

Parr was a combined 12-7 with a 3.58 ERA in 27 games (25 starts) for Richmond and AA Mississippi this season. He arrives having gone 3-0 with an 0.96 ERA in his past three starts.

Diaz eyes return

Matt Diaz’s rehabilitation is going well enough that he’s begun doing some light hitting and holds out hope he might return to action for the last week or so of the season.

Diaz’s four-week rehab program ends on Sept. 15 and he’ll travel to Vail, Colo., shortly after for a follow-up visit with the knee specialist.

On the last visit Diaz, who has been out since May with a strained posterior cruciate ligament, was told his knee was structurally healed. The setbacks suffered in minor-league outings were related to a lack of strength in the muscles around his knee.

“I’m still holding out hope against hope that I can steal a week’s worth of at-bats at the end of the season,” said Diaz, who said it would at least mean “it all wasn’t in vain how hard I went after getting healthy.”

Notable

Jo-Jo Reyes returned to Atlanta on Tuesday to be with his wife, Jamie, for the birth of their first child. Reyes is scheduled to pitch Thursday against the Nationals.