BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : ANGELS

Top Pick to Work Out Deal, Then Depart

McKay Christensen, the Angels’ top draft pick, went to Disneyland for grad night after hearing the news. He said he will visit Anaheim Stadium next Friday to hammer out the final details of his contract.

Christensen, from Clovis West High, near Fresno, will begin his two-year Mormon mission in July or August and said that he will turn down a scholarship offer to play football and baseball at Brigham Young.

Christensen, a center fielder, batted .486 (34 for 70) with six home runs and 23 runs batted in this past season.

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Brian Anderson will probably make his return to the starting rotation Tuesday against Minnesota, Manager Marcel Lachemann said. Anderson broke his left thumb in a May 6 game against Oakland. He pitched seven innings Wednesday at Class-A Lake Elsinore and gave up four hits and four runs. . . . Third baseman Damion Easley, who hasn’t played since Sunday, re-aggravated his injured right shoulder and was a last-minute scratch. Spike Owen replaced him. . . . First baseman Eduardo Perez, in the lineup for the first time since losing a homer in Tuesday’s rainout at Cleveland, to Dwight Smith, who lost a triple: “No rain in the forecast, right?”