BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE MAJOR LEAGUES : Bonilla Is Fined, Suspended 2 Games

Bobby Bonilla of the New York Mets was suspended for two games and fined an undisclosed amount for his actions in Monday night’s game against the Chicago Cubs.

Bonilla ran out to the mound with a bat after Cub pitcher Shawn Boskie hit him with a pitch. Bonilla also threw umpire Larry Poncino to the ground in the ensuing melee.

Bonilla has appealed the suspension, and the punishment will be delayed pending a hearing.

Hours after demanding to be traded, Rickey Henderson said he was just “jiving” and would be happy to stay with the Oakland Athletics as long as they want him.

“That was a big joke so we can drop it, all right?” Henderson said. “Rickey tricked everybody. . . . Thank you all. I finally got a chance to laugh.

“I am happy playing here. I love playing here. That’s why I’m here. Otherwise, I would have been gone--bingo.”

He is in the third year of a four-year contract that includes a no-trade clause.

In postgame remarks Tuesday night to a free-lance radio reporter and the Sacramento Bee, Henderson said he was unhappy with his treatment and wanted out of Oakland, which acquired him in 1989 in a midseason trade with the New York Yankees.

“I want out. I don’t want to play here any more,” Henderson said. “I’m not happy so I’m going to ask to be traded. It’s been going on too long. I don’t think I’m treated fairly. They don’t deserve what I do.”

Both reporters said it was clear Henderson wasn’t kidding, but Henderson insisted he was “just jiving around.”

Henderson also said he doesn’t feel he’s gotten the respect he deserved from management.

“I don’t get the respect, no,” he said. “I should be like another Nolan Ryan. I strive to be the best that I can be.”

Henderson said he wouldn’t mind being traded as long as it was to a first place team.

Baseball fans soon will be able to pick up Minnesota Twins’ tickets when they visit the grocery store.

The Twins said they will test ticketing machines, similar to bank automatic tellers, at three markets starting in July.

Montreal Expo outfielder Ivan Calderon probably will miss the rest of the season after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulder, his third operation on the shoulder in four years.