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BASEBALL PLAYOFF NOTES : AMERICAN LEAGUE : Guzman Got Good Advice From Dodger

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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The night before his major league debut, Blue Jay right-hander Juan Guzman called his old neighbor, Ramon Martinez, for advice. Guzman went on to a 10-3 record and will start Game 2 of the American League championship series today.

“He was always better than me, since we’ve been kids,” said Guzman, who grew up with the Dodger pitcher in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. They also played together in the Dodgers’ farm system until the Dodgers traded Guzman to Toronto for Mike Sharperson in September of 1987.

The New York Yankees reportedly are interested in former Angel Manager Doug Rader as the replacement for Stump Merrill, who was fired Monday.

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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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