BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Ryan Will Not Pitch in Anaheim

By HELENE ELLIOTT

Sept. 7, 1991 12 AM PT

Nolan Ryan will not face the Angels during the Texas Rangers’ three-game series at Anaheim Stadium next week and probably won’t make the trip.

Ryan, 44, started Friday night against the Chicago White Sox at Arlington Stadium. In the Rangers’ six-man rotation, his next start is scheduled for Thursday at Texas. Ryan also missed the Rangers’ four-game series at Anaheim June 28-July 1.

His only appearance against the Angels this season was July 7, when he pitched seven hitless innings and finished with a two-hitter in a 7-0 victory.

Left-hander Kyle Abbott, rated the Angels’ top pitching prospect, will get a start soon. . . . First baseman-outfielder Lee Stevens, another of the seven September call-ups, batted sixth and played right field Friday. Stevens, aware that Wally Joyner can become a free agent after the season, regards the next few weeks as crucial to his future. “It’s very important for me to come in and do well,” he said.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Ryan Will Not Pitch in Anaheim

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