King Returns to the Hill for Pacific Suns' Tryout

King Returns to the Hill for Pacific Suns’ Tryout

By STEVE HENSON

April 21, 1998 12 AM PT

Eric King (Royal High, Moorpark College) hasn’t pitched in three years because of arm problems, but he is trying to make a comeback of sorts with the Pacific Suns of the independent Western League. King, 34, pitched three innings in the Oxnard-based team’s intrasquad game Saturday, allowing only one hit. The Suns this week will begin negotiations with King, who last pitched in the major leagues in 1992. . . . Randy Wolf (El Camino Real, Pepperdine) has not allowed a run in 11 innings. The left-hander, who is 2-0 for the Philadelphia Phillies’ double-A affiliate in Reading, Pa., has struck out 16, walked three and allowed four hits.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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