BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Barfield Angrily Throws Ball Out of the Stadium

Yankee outfielder Jesse Barfield became the latest player to throw a ball in anger, hitting the elevated subway tracks that stand behind the right-field fence at Yankee Stadium on Thursday.

After fans in the right-field seats threw Wally Joyner’s fifth-inning home run back onto the field, Barfield picked it up and threw it out of the stadium.

“It was a culmination of me not doing my job offensively and them doing the job of kicking our butts,” Barfield said after the Angels’ 7-0 victory. “It wasn’t a smart thing for me to do, but I felt better after I did it.”

Cleveland’s Albert Belle was suspended for seven days for hitting a spectator in the chest with a ball at Cleveland Stadium last Saturday, and Cincinnati’s Rob Dibble was suspended four days and fined an undisclosed amount for throwing a ball into the center-field seats at Riverfront Stadium and hitting a fan on the elbow. Both players are appealing.

Angel second baseman Luis Sojo expects to be sidelined three or four days after straining his right hamstring Thursday. He left the game after hitting a double in the fourth inning. . . . Yankee starter Dave Eiland left after two innings after jamming his right heel while covering first on Luis Polonia’s first-inning grounder. . . . Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly left the game because of a bruised left knee, incurred when he tried to break up a double play in the fourth inning. His status is day to day.