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BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Langston, Abbott Pitching Well

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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Whether he starts the first game of the Angels’ season or the second, left-hander Mark Langston will consider it his opening day.

“I don’t ever look at it that I’m the No. 2 or 3 pitcher,” he said. “I don’t put much emphasis on that. If you do, you’re going to pitch like a No. 3 guy.”

Langston led the Angels’ staff last season with 19 victories.

Langston and Jim Abbott, the candidates to start the season opener April 7, pitched equally well Friday in the Angels’ exhibition opener. Each threw three scoreless innings in a 3-1 victory over the San Diego Padres at Desert Sun Stadium in Mesa, Ariz.

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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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