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BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : ANGELS

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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Dave Gallagher need no longer lament his lack of fan mail. An envelope arrived for him containing a picture inscribed, “Don’t ever say you don’t get any fan mail.” It was signed, “Your 1 fan, Jerry Reuss.”

Baltimore shortstop Cal Ripken’s seventh-inning throwing error ended his 51-game errorless streak. He has committed five errors in 235 games. . . . Gary Gaetti’s home run in the fourth inning was the Angels’ first three-run homer this season and their first homer in 196 at-bats with runners in scoring position. . . . Wally Joyner broke Rod Carew’s club record for most games played at first base with his 721st appearance. . . . Dick Schofield’s fourth-inning double was his first extra-base hit in 60 at-bats this season.

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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.

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