51.   Acquiring a starting pitcher also would help the overused bullpen, weakened when Terry Adams and Giovanni Carrara were moved into the starting rotation.

52.   After a respectable stint in the big leagues last summer, Cho appears ready to crack the starting rotation on a full-time basis as well.

53.   After his team had clinched, Oates made positioning his starting rotation and resting his regulars his top priorities.

54.   After getting wracked in another start, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Davey Johnson may be ready to pull lefty Carlos Perez from the starting rotation.

55.   All Hernandez has done is make two starts so impressive that he dislodged Ramiro Mendoza from the starting rotation.

56.   All of which should give that still-questionable starting rotation a fighting chance.

57.   Brian Rose was in the starting rotation.

58.   Brian Rose cemented his spot in the starting rotation with five scoreless innings in which he allowed five hits but did not walk a batter while striking out three.

59.   Britt Cornwell, a freshman from New Mexico, and Lance Wallace, a junior transfer, will be in the starting rotation.

60.   Bud Black appears young and healthy enough to be among the Angels pitchers competing for a spot in the starting rotation.