BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE MAJORS : A’s Release Reliever Nunez After Loss

Right-handed reliever Edwin Nunez, who gave up three hits and two runs in pitching the final two-thirds inning of Oakland’s 11-7, 10-inning loss to Texas Monday night, was released. Outfielder Ernie Young was called up from double-A Huntsville. . . . Boston pitcher Frank Viola, 34, had Tommy John surgery in Los Angeles, and is expected to stay here about a week before going home to Florida or to Boston to begin rehabilitation. Dr. Frank Jobe performed the tendon-transplant surgery on Viola’s left elbow to repair a muscle group that had torn from the bone.

Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants is scheduled to make a court appearance in Riverside today for a hearing regarding an incident in which he is accused of threatening a hair salon owner’s son. Bonds is not expected to miss the Giants’ game at Houston tonight. Bonds was born in Riverside and members of his family live there. . . . Toronto Blue Jay pitchers Dave Stewart and Todd Stottlemyre pleaded innocent to felony charges stemming from a scuffle with police outside a Tampa, Fla., nightclub Feb. 20. They were celebrating Stewart’s 37th birthday when a dispute began, Stewart said, over wearing a wristband required by the nightclub to show they were of legal drinking age. . . . Cleveland traded right-hander Tom Kramer to the Cincinnati Reds for right-hander John Hrusovsky, who was assigned to the Indians’ double-A team at Canton-Akron.

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Baseball’s labor talks resume today in New York after a 1 1/2-month break, but union head Donald Fehr doesn’t think much will come out of the session. “I have no reason to think we’re going to get a proposal,” Fehr said. “(Management negotiator) Dick (Ravitch) told me it would be three or four weeks yet.”

Fehr has said a strike during the second half of the season is possible to prevent owners from imposing a salary cap after the World Series. Owners agreed to a new revenue-sharing arrangement among themselves on Jan. 18, but made that agreement contingent on the players agreeing to a salary cap, which is unlikely.