Chipper Jones has waited long enough for his right quadriceps muscle to heal, and now he might be destined to make his first trip of the season to the disabled list.

"I'm the only one in here who knows how I feel," Jones said. "I can do the fast-twitch stuff -- I can hit and I can even field -- but I just can't run."

When Jones aggravated the quad injury on June 20, he indicated that he was feeling more discomfort than he had when he'd tweaked the muscle twice earlier this season.

"We probably should have DL'd me right when it happened," Jones said on Sunday. "I knew that it was worse than the previous time. But the competitive side of me wanted to help the club, and I've always been a fairly quick healer. So I figured in five or six days, it would be OK, or at least good enough to get back in there. It just hasn't gotten good enough, fast enough."

"I don't think Chipper is close to playing," Bobby Cox said.

Jones currently leads National League third basemen in All-Star balloting and has been looking forward to starting his fourth career Midsummer Classic. But right now, he's just hoping this additional rest will allow him to get healthy.

"I'd miss nine or 10 days that, quite frankly, I'm probably going to need," said Jones, who still isn't able to run with more than 50 percent effort.

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