BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Gonzales Earns Job at Second Base

The more success Rene Gonzales enjoys at the plate, the less Bobby Rose will play.

Rose, who opened the season as the Angels’ starting second baseman, will be deployed as a utility infielder beginning with the upcoming trip, according to Manager Buck Rodgers. Gonzales, who hit his fifth home run of the season in the Angels’ 7-5 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday, will start at second while Rose struggles to regain his stroke and his self assurance. Rose is five for 42 since April 17 and is batting .207.

“Right now, he’s a little different player than he was coming out of spring training,” Rodgers said of Rose. “He’s lost a little confidence in himself. I told him I have confidence in him as long as he has confidence in himself. I tend to lose confidence in him if he loses confidence in himself.”

With eight extra-base hits this season (five homers, three doubles), Gonzales has matched the career high he set with the Baltimore Orioles in 1988. That season, he needed 92 games and 237 at-bats to get two homers and six doubles; he got his eight extra-base hits this season in 52 at-bats over 23 games. . . . Von Hayes’ first-inning double ended his 0-for-12 slump. Hayes needed several stitches to close a cut on his chin caused when he dived into second on a steal in the fifth inning. Hayes scored on the next play, a single by Junior Felix. . . . Lance Parrish, on the 15-day disabled list because of bone spurs in his right elbow, won’t accompany the team to Boston, the first stop on a three-city, nine-game trip. Parrish might meet the team in New York or Baltimore. . . . Pitcher Don Robinson is expected to make the trip. He is ready to be activated off the disabled list. . . . Alvin Davis, who injured his neck slightly in a collision with Travis Fryman on a pickoff play Tuesday, did not play Wednesday. . . . Phil Bradley signed a minor league contract with the Angels’ triple-A Edmonton farm club.