BASEBALL MISCELLANY : NAMES AND NUMBERS

Bo Jackson: The Kansas City Royals’ left fielder was fined an undisclosed sum for reporting late to Royals Stadium for Monday’s season opener. Manager John Wathan said that he informed the team in a meeting Sunday that tardiness will not be tolerated. Jackson may not have heard because he was late for that meeting, too.

The Royals: Established in 1969, they had never lost the first two games of a season.

The Atlanta Braves: They drew 34,929 for their season opener with the Chicago Cubs, then 6,122 for the next game, the 13th time in their last 19 home dates they had drawn fewer than 10,000. Did the Braves make a mistake by leaving Milwaukee? Evidence indicates as much. The Brewers have outdrawn the Braves in 13 of their 16 years of coexistence and totaled 22.8 million compared to the Braves’ 17.6 million in Atlanta.

The Baltimore Orioles: By losing their first two series to the Brewers and the Cleveland Indians, the Orioles have played 25 straight series against American League East teams without winning one. Since the final week of the 1986 season, they are 20-76 against the East.

The Minnesota Twins: Their road blues continue. They were 29-52 during the regular season last year. Now, through their first two defeats in New York, they are 12-33 on the road since June 25, 1987, including the postseason. Frank Viola, a loser to the Yankees on opening day, is 0-5 in his last six road starts, and first baseman Kent Hrbek encountered a real pothole when he was benched against Yankee left-hander John Candelaria. Said Hrbek, who batted .216 against left-handers last year: “I don’t want to sit. I’m going to have to talk to him (Manager Tom Kelly) about that.”

Steve Trout: In his first start for the Seattle Mariners against the Oakland Athletics Wednesday, Trout was yanked after throwing only 29 pitches. He threw 22 balls, including two wild pitches, one of which hit the backstop screen. He failed to cover the plate on one of them and also threw wildly to third for an error. Said Trout, who is known as Rainbow: “I do the most amazing things sometimes.” Said pitching coach Billy Connors: “He vapor-locked on us.”

The Pittsburgh Pirates: They opened the season with only two players older than 30, Bob Walk and Dave Hostettler, who is the oldest at 32. The average age is 26.1, and the average major league experience is 2.5 years.

Mel Stottlemyre: The former Yankee pitching star, now the New York Mets’ pitching coach, made his major league debut in Minnesota in 1965. His son, Todd, will make his major league starting debut for the Toronto Blue Jays in Minnesota today.

Mookie Wilson: At a time when there is an arms shortage throughout the major leagues, the pitching rich Mets have stockpiled 10 minor league pitchers through seven trades since the end of last season and are attempting to trade their unhappy center fielder to the A’s for another prospect.

Willie Hernandez: The Detroit Tigers’ relief pitcher is still effective only when throwing a pail of water at a sportswriter. In his 1988 debut Wednesday at Boston, Hernandez retired only 1 of 6 batters he faced and has retired only 4 of the last 19 he has faced in 7 appearances going back to last season.

Doyle Alexander: The Tiger starter has won 54 of his last 74 American League decisions since losing 6 in a row with the Blue Jays in 1983.

Duane Kuiper: The former major league player, now a broadcaster with the San Francisco Giants, was on the air opening day at Dodger Stadium when he said of Dave Dravecky’s 66 pitches in 6 innings: “It doesn’t take a very smart guy to realize that figures out to 12 an inning.”