Eaton Misses Start After Cutting Self

Right-hander Adam Eaton of the San Diego Padres was bumped from his start Thursday after he cut himself in the stomach while opening a package with a pocket knife Wednesday night.

Eaton needed two stitches to close the cut that was a little less than an inch deep. He’ll start Saturday against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Phoenix.

“It was just a boneheaded play,” said Eaton. who leads the Padres with six victories.

He said he was packing for the team’s trip that starts today and was trying to open a package of DVDs.

“They’re in those plastic packages that no one can get open,” he said. “I was using a little knife to cut it and it slipped. You learn when you’re little to cut away from yourself.”

Trying to regain his control, Rick Ankiel worked out at the St. Louis Cardinals’ spring training camp in Jupiter, Fla.

Ankiel was 1-2 with a 7.13 earned-run average in six starts with the Cardinals, walking 25 batters in 24 innings. He was optioned to triple-A Memphis on May 11 and in three starts had a 20.77 ERA with 17 walks and 12 wild pitches in 4 1/3 innings.

The Cardinals instructed their staff not to comment on Ankiel, Memphis Manager Chris Maloney said.

Cardinal General Manager Walt Jocketty said the 21-year-old left-hander would remain in extended spring training for an “indefinite period.”

Reliever Dan Miceli of the Florida Marlins, whose comments sparked the firing of manager John Boles this week, feels betrayed by many of his teammates and expects to be traded.

“I’m a good pitcher, I have good stuff and I can still get people out,” said Miceli, a 30-year-old right-hander who has played with four major league teams. “But maybe a change of uniform would be good for me.”

After the Marlins’ 5-4 loss to the New York Mets on Sunday, Miceli blasted Boles and the rest of the coaching staff for moves they made this season.

Boles was fired the next day.

The Boston Red Sox own the rights to the fabled Green Monster of Fenway Park and vendors cannot sell products featuring The Wall without team permission.

That was the verdict of a Boston jury that settles a dispute that has simmered since the early 1990s between the team and three brothers who used to sell Green Monster T-shirts outside the park.

Reliever Rudy Seanez, who hasn’t pitched in the major leagues since having ligament replacement surgery on his right elbow last June 29, joined the Padres. Seanez’s contract was purchased from Class-A Lake Elsinore, where the 32-year-old was 2-0 with a 2.08 ERA in seven games. . . . Chuck Finley, scheduled to pitch tonight for the Cleveland Indians, had his start against the New York Yankees pushed back to Sunday because of a stiff neck. . . . Third baseman Eric Chavez of the Oakland Athletics will be sidelined until next week because of a bruised left heel.