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By HELENE ELLIOTT

Oct. 16, 1992 12 AM PT

Gaston will probably announce today how he will reconfigure his lineup without a designated hitter in the first two games.

Dave Winfield hit .300 in the playoffs and .290 with 26 home runs and 108 runs batted in during the season, and Gaston might put him in right field and move Joe Carter to first, benching John Olerud.

The drawbacks: Winfield played only 26 games in right field this season, and Carter played first only four times. But against left-handers Glavine and Steve Avery, Olerud, a left-handed hitter, may be less effective, anyway.

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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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