ANGELS NOTEBOOK : LANGSTON ACTIVATED, EXPECTS TO START TODAY.The saga of ``When will Mark Langston pitch?'' took another turn Saturday. Now, he is scheduled to pitch today. To recap, Langston, who's been out since July 12 with nerve irritation in his leg, was supposed to come off the disabled list Saturday and start for the Angels. Then he decided to wait until Tuesday because he wasn't sure his arm would be strong enough after being kept off his feet for much of his layoff. But when today's scheduled starter, Shawn Boskie, revealed Friday night that he had a tender right (throwing) elbow, Langston told manager Marcel Lachemann he could go today. He worked out Monday and Wednesday and succeeded in throwing all of his pitches. After Saturday's game, Langston was activated, and right-handed pitcher Shad shad, fish, Alosa sapidissima, of the family Clupeidae (herring family), found along the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Florida and successfully introduced on the Pacific coast. The shad is one of the largest (6 lb/2.7 kg average) of the herrings and has delicious but bony flesh; its roe is valued as a delicacy. Shad ascend rivers to spawn in the spring; water pollution and indiscriminate netting have cut down their numbers. Williams was optioned to Triple-A Vancouver. ``I feel fine,'' Langston said. ``Today (Saturday) would have been too tough to bounce back from.'' Boskie said his shoulder started tightening after his last start Tuesday. ``It felt OK after the trainer rubbed it out,'' he said, ``but yesterday it tightened up. It will be fine. I'm not alarmed.'' His next start has been pushed back to Thursday in Detroit. Other moves: As expected, catcher Don Slaught was activated from the disabled list before Saturday's game. Slaught's return meant the Angels were carrying three catchers (Pat Borders and Jorge Fabregas were the others), but that ended early Saturday when Borders, who started Friday's game, was traded to the Chicago White Sox for minor-league pitcher Robert Ellis. ``We had to do something with (Slaught),'' Lachemann said, ``and we had an opportunity to get a pitcher we're interested in.'' There had been talk that the Angels might reacquire pitcher Kirk McCaskill, who was released by the White Sox earlier this week. Lachemann said, ``We may do some more things in the next few days.'' Ellis, 25, was assigned to Vancouver from Chicago's Triple-A affiliate, Nashville. He has pitched in the majors this season, going 2-8 with a 6.13 ERA as a starter and 0-1, 5.19 as a reliever. Slaught came in batting .340 in 55 games, then went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts in Saturday's start. Borders batted .228 in 19 games. |
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