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BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Valenzuela Wins at Edmonton, 5-3

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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Fernando Valenzuela won his first game with triple-A Edmonton, striking out seven in a 5-3 victory over Tacoma in a Pacific Coast League game Monday night at Edmonton.

Valenzuela, trying to make it back up with the Angels, went 5 2/3 innings, giving up six hits, including a pair of home runs. The former Cy Young Award winner faced 24 batters and threw 93 pitches, 57 for strikes.

Mike Marshall, who was signed to a minor league contract last Friday, is scheduled to join the Angels today in Cleveland. Angel Manager Doug Rader said Marshall was summoned for outfield depth before he knew Luis Polonia’s hyperextended left shoulder had improved dramatically by Monday.

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“It’s a good chance for him to meet everybody, take some BP, some infield and see how we stand,” Rader said of Marshall, who was two for eight in three games with Class-A Palm Springs.

Polonia probably won’t resume throwing until the Angels play at Detroit Wednesday and Thursday.

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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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