BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : ANGELS

By HELENE ELLIOTT

March 25, 1992 12 AM PT

Catcher John Orton, who has a sore right shoulder, is considered day-to-day. “He’s got to feel good for a couple days in a row, and then we’ll take a shot with him,” Rodgers said. . . . Catcher Lance Parrish, who was hitless Tuesday, is batting .115. Gary Gaetti, also hitless, is batting .154. “You’re always concerned when a guy’s not swinging the bat well, and neither of them is,” Rodgers said. “We’re not panicked. (But) it’s very important that Lance starts to swing the bat better.”

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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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