ANGELS REPORT : More Help Is Recalled From Triple-A Edmonton

The ongoing migration from Edmonton continues, with one surprise. Edmonton outfielder Jeff DaVanon will be called up Tuesday, along with catchers Bret Hemphill and Steve Decker.

With Tim Salmon undergoing an MRI on his back Sunday there may be a need for DaVanon, who was one of three players acquired in the July 29 deal that sent second baseman Randy Velarde and pitcher Omar Olivares to the Oakland Athletics.

“He has done a nice job, look at his numbers,” said Joe Maddon, the Angel interim manager.

DaVanon was hitting .325 with six home runs, 33 runs and nine stolen bases in 32 games with Edmonton. DaVanon hit .341 with 11 home runs, 87 runs and 18 stolen bases with Midland, the A’s double-A team.

How much playing time DaVanon will see is still to be determined. But DaVanon, who played right field with Edmonton, might get plenty of time considering the wear and tear on Angel outfielders this season.

Salmon was scratched from Sunday’s game because of what was called a strained lower back. Dr. Lewis Yocum will review the MRI results today.

“It’s not something that is debilitating,” Maddon said. “Tim just wasn’t going to get back in time for his game preparation.

“We looked for a spot to get him in there as a pinch-hitter.”

That came in the sixth, when the Angels had runners on first and second with no out. Salmon walked.

“You get this pain sometimes in spring,” Salmon said of his back injury. “But for the last four or five days it has really been bothering me and that’s kind of weird.”

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Yankee pitcher Ed Yarnall, making his first start, was provided with plenty of offense to get his first victory.

The Angels had their chances against Yarnall, 23. They scored two runs with two out in the first on singles by Troy Glaus and Garret Anderson. They left two on in the second.

Those were the only earned runs for the Angels, who were working off a two-year-old scouting report. Yarnall went six innings, giving up four hits and walking six, but gave up only an unearned run after the first. “We didn’t close the deal,” Maddon said. “When you have a young fella in trouble, you have to put an end to it.”

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Terry Collins, who resigned Friday, made an appearance at Edison Field late Saturday night. He met informally with coaches in equipment manager Ken Higdon’s office. . . . General Manager Bill Bavasi said that he did not believe closer Troy Percival threw at Cleveland’s Dave Justice last Tuesday because he had given up a home run to Richie Sexson. “Troy takes his lumps if he gets beat,” Bavasi said. “He came inside or hit Justice because [Sexson] showed our ball club up running around the bases.”

TONIGHT

ANGELS’ JARROD WASHBURN

(0-3, 9.15 ERA)

vs.

YANKEES’ ROGER CLEMENS

(12-7, 4.54 ERA)

Edison Field, 5 p.m.

TV--Fox Sports West. Radio--KLAC (570), XPRS (1090).

* Update--Washburn, one of the young pitchers given a chance in the the Angels’ lost season, has given up 15 runs in 13 2/3 innings over four starts.

* Tickets--(714) 663-9000.