MLB suspends White Sox' Pierzynski

Baseball
Chicago White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski was suspended for one game yesterday for his conduct against the New York Yankees Thursday. After striking out in the eighth inning, Pierzynski pounded the plate in disgust with his bat and then said something to home plate umpire Bob Davidson, who ejected him. Pierzynski then flipped his helmet back at the plate. Pierzynski appealed the suspension and was in yesterday's lineup against the Houston Astros, but he said he might sit out today in the finale of the interleague series. Chicago is scheduled to face Houston lefthander Wandy Rodriguez today and Pierzynski would probably have not started the game . . . Tampa Bay catcher Dioner Navarro was released from a hospital after he was hit in the throat by an errant pitch Friday, the team said. A sixth-inning pitch from Brian Stokes landed short of the plate and bounced under Navarro's mask against the Marlins. Navarro was in uniform yesterday but he didn't play . . . Mark Teixeira's franchise-record consecutive games streak ended at 507 when the Texas Rangers placed their first baseman on the 15-day disabled list (strained left quadriceps) before last night's game against Milwaukee . . . Detroit Tigers lefthander Kenny Rogers, who had arterial bypass surgery at the end of March, will make his first rehab start tonight for Toledo. He'll pitch three innings or up to about 50 pitches in his first outing since spring training . . . Marc DesRoches of Somerville pitched a perfect game to lift the Alibrandis over the Brighton Braves, 7-0, in the Yawkey League. Somerville leads the league with a 10-0 record.

Basketball

Former Celtic Ernie Barrett has retired as Kansas State's director of development for athletics. The announcement ends an era that began in 1947 when Barrett enrolled at Kansas State and became an All-American and team captain in 1951, when Kansas State reached the NCAA championship game, losing to Kentucky. Barrett, 77, was drafted by the Boston Celtics, where he played for two seasons . . . A judge ordered Milwaukee Bucks forward Ruben Patterson to pay a $1,000 fine for failing to register as a convicted sex offender after he moved into a new neighborhood in Cincinnati. Patterson, 31, pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge. In 2001, when Patterson played for the Portland Trail Blazers, he entered a modified guilty plea in Washington state to third-degree attempted rape for allegedly forcing his children's nanny to perform a sex act on him. A judge suspended all but 15 days of a one-year sentence .

Horse racing

New England-bred champion Ask Queenie took a wire-to-wire victory in defense of her title in the $45,000 Isadorable Stakes at Suffolk Downs. Ask Queenie, winner in 2005 and 2006, was taken to the head of the pack early by jockey Dyn Panell, who rode the 6-year-old mare to a 4-length victory in the 6-furlong race in 1:11 4/5 . . . Alilability showed off his closing kick to eight other 3-year-old colts and geldings and won the $20,000 final of the Mt. Skipper Series at Rockingham Park in Salem, N.H. The son of Noble Ability, driven by Kyle DiBenedetto, stormed to win by a 1 1/4 lengths in 1:51.1 after trailing Herzon by nearly 4 lengths . . . Chad Johnson got a headstart, but his victory was still impressive, since it came against 4-year-old colt, Restore the Roar. Cincinnati's wide receiver raced the horse for charity and won easily. He was spotted a 100-meter lead, about half the distance Restore the Roar covered in his 1-furlong gallop.

Miscellany

When the Notre Dame football team faces Southern California this fall, the Irish will be wearing green again. Coach Charlie Weis said the team would wear green jerseys to honor the 1977 team. Weis was a senior at Notre Dame when the 11th-ranked Irish wore their normal blue jerseys for warm-ups, then donned green for the game and defeated No. 5 USC, 49-19, en route to the national championship . . . Poland's Tomasz Adamek stopped Luis Pineda of Panama in the seventh round to capture the vacant International Boxing Organization cruiserweight title in Katowice, Poland. On the undercard, Polish heavyweight Andrew Golota returned to the ring after a two-year hiatus to beat American Jeremy Bates . . . Lornah Kiplagat of the Netherlands won the New York Mini 10K in Central Park for a fourth time. Kiplagat, the two-time defending champion, finished the 36th annual women's road race in 32 minutes 10 seconds. Kim Smith of New Zealand was second in 32:18. Ann Alyanak of Bellbrook, Ohio, was 20th in 34:49, the only American in the top 25 . . . Eileen Canney struck out 13 and gave up only one hit and three walks in her first professional start as the New England Riptide shut out the host Rockford (Ill.) Thunder, 3-0, in National Pro Fastpitch softball . . . Korea's two first-half goals were enough to defeat the USA Field Hockey women's national team, 2-0, in the opening game of the AtaHolding Champions Challenge in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Americans will play China today, winners over Azerbaijan, 2-0. England defeated New Zealand, 1-0, in the other first-round game.