Parrish's Number Comes Up and Angels Win in 11

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Aug. 10, 1990 12 AM PT

Lance Parrish dreaded facing Boston Red Sox reliever Dennis Lamp in the 11th inning late Wednesday night.

“If there’s anybody in the game who’s got my number, it’s him,” said Parrish, who was hitless in his last 21 at-bats.

Parrish ended his slump with a two-run home run, giving the Angels an 8-6 victory in a game that took 4 hours 6 minutes. Parrish’s hit took the burden of guilt off Dave Winfield, whose misplay of Carlos Quintana’s seventh-inning fly ball led to a four-run rally that put the Red Sox ahead, 6-2.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

Parrish’s Number Comes Up and Angels Win in 11

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