The San Francisco Giants acknowledge that outfielder Barry Bonds has a right hamstring strain -- a partial tear -- but add that Bonds will play tonight at Houston and there are no plans to place him on the disabled list.

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Bonds was hurt in the third inning of Sunday's loss to Milwaukee. It's an injury he first sustained during the final week of spring training.

All hamstring strains are partial tears, but there are three degrees of tears and Bonds has the mildest.

Bonds told The Contra Times his hamstring is torn, and when asked by the newspaper if he might be one wrong move away from blowing it out altogether Bonds said, "Ah, could be. It's not helping that it's a tear -- some form of a tear. If it was just sore it wouldn't be lasting this long. If it was bruised it wouldn't be like this -- not on me.

"I've never really had a hamstring injury in my life ... but I can play with it. It's not a problem. It's just that I can't hit doubles unless it's off the wall -- way out there. I can't score on some balls hit. As long as I can help the team, I'm going out there. I can still swing that bat."

The Giants say that Bonds was bothered a bit by the injury in their most recent series with the Padres because of the unusually cold weather in San Diego.

Bonds couldn't catch up with Mark Kotsay's fly ball in the first inning of Tuesday's game against the San Diego Padres, turning it into a double. He also was slow to get to a Phil Nevin single in the first inning Wednesday, bobbling the ball and allowing Nevin to go to second.

"I'm playing on one leg," Bonds told The Contra Costa Times.