BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Valenzuela's Future to Be Discussed

BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Valenzuela’s Future to Be Discussed

By HELENE ELLIOTT

June 3, 1991 12 AM PT

<i> Associated Press</i>

Angel executives will meet today to discuss their plans for Fernando Valenzuela, who made his last scheduled minor league start Saturday at Little Rock, Ark.

Valenzuela’s contract stipulated that he would make three minor league starts, so additional starts would have to be mutually agreed upon.

“The decision is being made by the parties who negotiated it in the first place,” Angel Manager Doug Rader said.

The Angels have won seven consecutive series, five after losing the opener. They were 62 for 221 (.281) on the road trip. . . . The last time the Angels were seven games over .500 was at the end of the 1989 season. . . . Third baseman Gary Gaetti sat out Sunday, only the second game he has missed this season. He leads the team in games played, with 47. . . . Luis Polonia’s third-inning infield hit increased his batting average with runners in scoring position and two out to .500 (13 for 26).

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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.

BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Valenzuela’s Future to Be Discussed

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