BASEBALL MISCELLANY

Numbers:

--The Pittsburgh Pirates are paying $600,000 to Lee Mazzilli, $625,000 to Sixto Lezcano, $700,000 to Johnnie LeMaster, $800,000 to Jason Thompson and $1.2 million to Steve Kemp. That’s $3.925 million to players no longer with the team. Only Kemp, in fact, is still in baseball. He is playing for Triple-A Las Vegas.

--Nolan Ryan’s 14 strikeouts against the Montreal Expos last Tuesday were the most the Houston Astro pitcher has had in one National League start since 1968, when he was with the New York Mets. Ryan has struck out 10 or more batters 159 times in his 19-year career.

--The Dodgers have the worst record in the National League in extra-inning games: 4-10. The Braves have the best: 8-3.

--Pitcher Dan Schatzeder, just acquired by the Philadelphia Phillies from the Expos, is 4 for 10 as a pinch-hitter and is batting .429 (9 for 21) overall. San Francisco Giant pitcher Mike LaCoss, meanwhile, has 9 runs batted in.

--The St. Louis Cardinals went five straight games without a stolen base for the first time since 1981, when they went eight games without one.

--Texas Ranger rookie Bobby Witt has walked 98 batters and thrown 16 wild pitches in 98 innings. Witt has allowed more than a walk an inning in 9 of his 20 starts.

--Dale Murphy of the Atlanta Braves has one home run in July.

--Chicago Cub outfielder Jerry Mumphrey, who has batted over .300 in each of the last five years at home while with the Astros and New York Yankees, is batting .351 this season at Wrigley Field. Before this season, Mumphrey’s average in Wrigley was .252.

--The Mets have played three games lasting five hours or more this season, twice in three days last week.

--The last three years, the Yankees’ winning percentage before the All-Star has been .519. After the break, it’s .642.

--In the Mets’ 14-inning, 6-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds last week, 43 of the 48 available players on both teams played. Met catcher Gary Carter played third base for the first time in 10 years. Met pitcher Roger McDowell played outfield for the first time since he was a 19-year-old amateur, and pitcher Jesse Orosco played the outfield for the first time in his life.

--Through 94 games, the Braves were 43-51 under Manager Chuck Tanner, one game better than the record they had when Eddie Haas was fired last season.

--Since July 3, when they were just 1 1/2 games out of first place in the National League West, the Braves are 4-14 and have been outscored, 111-62.

--If Don Mattingly of the Yankees continues at his present pace, he will break club records for hits and doubles that have lasted since 1927. At his current pace, Mattingly will wind up with 235 hits and 55 doubles, bettering Earle Coombs’ record for hits, 231, and Lou Gehrig’s record for doubles, 52.