BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT

Third baseman Tim Wallach, 38, who had off-season knee surgery, was booed when he decided not to stretch a single down the right-field line into a double. Fans then cheered when Wallach was replaced by pinch-runner Jack Howell, who later scored the Angels’ first run on Randy Velarde’s sacrifice fly. “That’s a tough crowd out there,” Wallach said. “I’m not about to blow out my knee on that one. That’ll be a double in April.” . . . Edmonds showed no ill effects from a sore right hamstring, going from first to third on Tim Salmon’s first-inning single to left and diving into third ahead of the throw. . . . Scott Sanderson, who missed most of last season because of a back injury, will start against the Chicago Cubs today in Mesa, Ariz.