BASEBALL: DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Home Is a Place to Get Even

The Angels have recovered from their 0-4 start at home this season and have a .500 record at Anaheim Stadium.

By winning four of the first five games of a seven-game home stand, the Angels are 7-7 at home. The team had won five in a row at home before losing to Toronto on Sunday.

“When we opened up, I really wanted to open on the road with a young team to work out some of the bugs,” Angel Manager Buck Rodgers said. “We’re a more consistent ballclub now.”

The Angels play Detroit tonight and in an afternoon game Wednesday before leaving on a nine-game trip.

Lance Parrish, reassured by other players who have told him they once had bone spurs in an elbow but never underwent surgery, is hopeful that he, too, can avoid an operation.

The catcher also remembers the example of former Angel pitcher Kirk McCaskill, who pitched through pain caused by spurs in his elbow in 1990, then underwent surgery in October.

Parrish, on the 15-day disabled list, said the elbow felt considerably better Sunday for the first time since he has been sidelined. He is treating it with ice and whirlpool sessions. But should rest and therapy not alleviate the pain, which recently became too intense for him to hit, team orthopedist Lewis Yocum said the next option is exploratory arthroscopic surgery.