BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Myers Makes Timely Return to Catching

Catcher Greg Myers played Tuesday for the first time since Aug. 9 and started for the first time since Aug. 5, when he suffered an injured right hand while applying a tag in Kansas City.

His recovery was well-timed, because a sore left shin kept Ron Tingley from playing. Tingley was hit on the leg by a pitch during the fourth inning Monday but stayed in the game, which lasted a painful 3 hours and 45 minutes. X-rays Tuesday found no broken bones, but his leg was heavily taped.

“I knew I wouldn’t play today, so I thought I might as well finish that one,” said Tingley, who struck out three times in addition to being hit. “When you’re going bad, it can get ugly, and it’s been pretty ugly for me the last week.”

UCLA pitcher Pete Janicki, the Angels’ first-round pick in the June draft, remains unsigned. If he chooses to return to school, the Angels will lose their claim on him, but if he decides not to go back, the club can still sign him.

Janicki, of Placentia, dropped out of the Olympic baseball trials because of a sore arm. The cause was later discovered to be a stress fracture.

Club executives haven’t determined which minor leaguers they will call up when rosters expand to 40 on Sept. 1, and there’s a good reason for that.

“I don’t think we have anybody left,” Angel executive Whitey Herzog joked.

If infielder Kevin Flora hadn’t suffered an ankle injury that has kept him out of the Edmonton’s lineup for two months, he would have been summoned. “There are some other people, but I’m not sure whether they figure into the immediate plans,” Angel executive Dan O’Brien said.