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BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Valenzuela’s Arm After Start Is Fine

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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Fernando Valenzuela said his pitching shoulder was “normal sore” after his first minor league start Wednesday. The 30-year-old left-hander pitched four innings for the Angels’ Class A Palm Springs farm club, the first of three scheduled warmup games. His next start is Monday for double-A Midland at Jackson, Miss.

A CT arthrogram on catcher Lance Parrish’s left shoulder showed no damage to the rotator cuff, and he got a cortisone injection to ease the inflammation in the shoulder. . . . Wally Joyner, who has batted second since May 7, was moved to his old No. 3 spot.

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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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