BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Salmon Hitting in All Directions

Garret Anderson may be the Angels’ hottest hitter of late, but right fielder Tim Salmon is only a few degrees below the rookie left fielder on the team’s offense-o-meter.

Salmon is 30 for 70 (.429) with five homers, 24 RBIs, 22 runs and nine doubles in the past 18 games. He went 9 for 16 (.563) with two homers and 10 RBIs against the Brewers and showed he is much more than a one-dimensional power hitter.

Salmon, whose RBI double down the right-field line broke a 3-3, eighth- inning tie in Thursday night’s victory over the Brewers, went to the opposite field again Sunday, slapping an RBI single to right in the first inning and a two-run double to right in the second.

“Right now, that’s what the pitchers are giving me,” said Salmon, who hits most of his home runs to left. “As a right-handed power hitter you’ve got to learn how to use the whole field.

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Mark Langston’s next start, originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been pushed to Saturday because of tenderness in his pitching elbow. Mike Harkey will start Wednesday night against Seattle.