BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : ANGELS

By HELENE ELLIOTT

May 31, 1992 12 AM PT

Wathan won the coaches’ batting practice game, hitting a home run to left-center over the 370-foot sign. “I’m hitting better now than I did seven years ago,” he said. However, interim third base coach Ken Macha claimed victory “because I hit more line drives.” . . . Junior Felix (strained left groin) and Bobby Rose (sprained right ankle) are improving.

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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.

BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : ANGELS

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