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BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Joyner Still Is in Dark About Future

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First baseman Wally Joyner has played his last game of the season. But has he played his last as an Angel? “I’d like to know the answer, too,” said Joyner, who will be eligible for free agency after the season. “All I can say is good things come to those who wait. I’m satisfied with my season and disappointed I had to miss the last two weeks (because of a sprained right ankle).”

Shortstop Dick Schofield was scratched from Friday’s lineup because he accompanied his wife to the hospital for the birth of their first child. . . . Bullpen coach Frank Reberger said that he and first base coach Bruce Hines were told they won’t be rehired next season. However, Manager Buck Rodgers won’t announce changes in the coaching staff until after the season.

Rodgers said the Angels’ trip to Kansas City and Toronto reaffirmed his judgments on several players and positions. That doesn’t mean every position is set for next season. “The fourth and fifth starters are still up in the air,” he said, referring to flawed performances by Joe Grahe, Scott Lewis and Mike Fetters.

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Amigos de los Ninos, a charity devoted to children, received a $10,000 donation from IBM in the names of Dave Winfield, Gary Gaetti and Wally Joyner to honor them for hitting the three longest Angel homers of the season. Winfield hit the longest, a 447-foot homer against Toronto on May 26.

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