Teixeira out for season with fractured right leg

Mark Teixeira will miss the rest of the season after tests revealed that the New York Yankees first baseman has a fractured right leg.

Teixeira fouled a ball off his shin Aug. 17 and has started only once since. He had trouble running in that game and was not improving much, so the Yankees sent him for a third round of tests Friday that finally showed a fracture.

“It’s been painful since day one,” Teixeira said. “We were just kind of trying to figure out why it wasn’t healing and today we figured it out.”

Though not entirely unexpected, it’s certainly a blow to the Yankees at an important time in their push for the playoffs. New York is 21⁄2 games behind first-place Toronto in the AL East. The Yankees have a comfortable lead in the wild card race.

Rookie Greg Bird will keep filling in for Teixeira. Bird is batting .241 with five home runs and 17 RBIs in 87 at-bats. Votto suspended: Reds first baseman Joey Votto appealed a two-game suspension for his home plate tantrum Wednesday night. Major League Baseball also fined Votto an undisclosed amount.

Votto got into an argument with umpire Bill Welke in Cincinnati’s 5-4 loss to Pittsburgh. He was ejected after asking for timeout in the eighth inning following a second called strike. The 2010 NL MVP threw his batting helmet and yelled at Welke.

Votto spoke about it for the first time Friday, saying he’d asked Welke for a timeout and was refused. Reds manager Bryan Price also was ejected.

The ejection was Votto’s third of the season and seventh of his career. Briefly: The Rockies placed catcher Nick Hundley on the 60-day disabled list with a cervical strain. He left Sunday’s game against the Giants with a stiff neck. ... Astros pitcher Scott Feldman will miss the rest of the season because of a sprained shoulder, the team said. ... Rays right fielder Steven Souza Jr. was back in the starting lineup after going on the DL in early August with a broken left hand.