BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : City Council Approves Disney Deal

The Anaheim City Council voted, 3-2, to approve a deal Tuesday night that keeps the Angels in Anaheim for more than 20 years but under new management: Walt Disney Co.

And several changes are in the works: The team will be called the Anaheim Angels or the Angels of Anaheim starting next season, and stadium seating will be reduced to give it a more intimate flavor.

Disney Sports Enterprises President Tony Tavares said he will sign legal agreements in Burbank today, finalizing the company’s partial purchase of the team.

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Steve Ontiveros threw off a mound Tuesday for the first time since, well, since a long time ago. The right-hander has been so limited by elbow injuries this season that Manager Marcel Lachemann couldn’t even remember his last mound appearance.

Reminded that Ontiveros threw an inning in a spring training game in March before suffering numerous setbacks, Lachemann said, “Did he? Oh, yeah.�

Ontiveros, on the disabled list since March 24, threw in the Fenway Park bullpen for 10 minutes without incident Tuesday.

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How’s this for a stunning statistic? The Angels, with a rotation that lost Mark Langston and now includes Scott Sanderson and Dennis Springer, both extremely shaky in their last starts, entered Tuesday’s game with the American League’s third best earned run average, 4.49.