Notebook : No Day in Sun for Gwynn, Whose Glove Is Stolen

Some of the spectators at Anaheim Stadium for Monday’s workout were not the usual laid-back Southern California fans, according to Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres.

“I’m not going back out in the field, I just ain’t going,” said Gwynn, the starting right fielder, after jogging to the dugout midway through the NL workout. “It’s crazy out in right field. Just crazy. The people here are the worst I’ve ever seen. Ever.”

Gwynn said somebody stole his glove. And then, he said, a fan jumped out of the stands and stole a ground ball. And there were others in the crowd of 39,779 who chose to visit the Anaheim Stadium turf.

“It ain’t safe out there,” said Gwynn, who was most upset about the glove.

“It was a new glove, it was going to be my game glove, and it was taken from this dugout,” Gwynn said. “How can somebody get in here and get a glove? Where would they come from?”

Gwynn, in his fifth All-Star game, said the scene in right field was beyond belief.

“A guy hits a ball into the corner, I go chase the ball . . . and then here comes this fan, chasing the same ball,” Gwynn said. “Right before I get to it, this guys dives and takes it away from me. He actually dives.

“So here comes security, but this guy gets up and is moving fast. He stiff-arms one of them like O.J. Simpson and then disappears into the stands. Then here comes a bunch of other people and nobody is stopping them. So I’m gone.”

Gwynn later returned to right field for the final minutes of the workout, saying, “It’s my responsibility to be out there.”

Anaheim Stadium officials in a late-afternoon meeting did not answer a written request for comment.

National League Manager Tom Lasorda saved his biggest lineup surprise for last. As his starting designated hitter he named Pedro Guerrero, the man the Dodgers traded away last summer.

“You bet I was surprised,” said Guerrero, hitting .292 with six homers and 55 runs batted in for the St. Louis Cardinals. “I really appreciate what ‘Sorda is doing for me. This is my fifth All-Star game and I never start, sometimes I never even play.

“I didn’t know ‘Sorda would do this. I didn’t even know there was a DH, I’m so happy for ‘Sorda, I don’t have the words to explain.”

Guerrero explained about an All-Star game in which he wasn’t so happy.

“Two years ago in Oakland, (New York Met Manager) Davey Johnson doesn’t play me until the 12th inning or something, I just pinch-hit,” Guerrero said. “I was mad, that was wrong. I should have played three or four innings.

Lasorda, while conducting a television interview with Guerrero after the National League workout, said with a laugh: “I hope you have a great game, but after that, I hope you go 0 for 80 the rest of the year.”

“Oh, ‘Sorda, you’re great,” Guerrero said.

Tom Lasorda won his bet. Goaded this spring by Orel Hershiser and Kirk Gibson to lose 20 pounds by the All-Star game, Lasorda announced Monday that he was now 39 pounds lighter and $30,000 richer.

“It’s a lock,” said Lasorda, who will have his official weigh-in today. “They have no chance unless I gain 30 pounds tonight.”

Lasorda weighed 218 pounds when the deal was made, and Hershiser and Gibson put up $10,000 each that the Dodger manager couldn’t get to 198 by July 11. When Lasorda hit his target weight a month early, Hershiser wagered another $10,000 that that he wouldn’t reach 190.

“I weighed myself in Chicago (on Sunday) and I was 179,” Lasorda said.

Lasorda said he intends to donate the $30,000 to the Sisters of Mercy convent in Nashville, Tenn., for the purpose of to building them a new home. “We’re going to have a night of entertainment on Nov. 30 and raise $1 million for the nuns,” he said.

Lasorda’s tale of the tape, then to now:

Waist: From 40 inches to 35.

Shirt: From 17 1/2 to 15 1/2.

Suit: From 46 to 43.

Lasorda said he went through three changes of clothes during the diet. Along the way, he was fitted for nine new pairs of pants--all of them now too large for him.

The NL scored a clean sweep of the three skill contests during Monday’s All-Star workout, including a 9-5 drubbing of the AL in the home run derby.

Cincinnati’s Eric Davis led the NL with three home runs. Houston’s Glenn Davis, the New York Mets’ Howard Johnson and San Francisco’s Kevin Mitchell each cleared the fences twice.

Texas’ Ruben Sierra paced the AL with three home runs. Kansas City’s Bo Jackson and Baltimore’s Mickey Tettleton added one apiece. Minnesota’s Gary Gaetti was shut out.

Other results:

--Catcher’s throw: Tony Pena of St. Louis and Benito Santiago of San Diego defeated the AL tandem of Terry Steinbach of Oakland and Tettleton in a test of throwing accuracy from home to a target positioned at second base.

Santiago led all catchers by throwing four balls through the target’s bull’s-eye and hitting the target six times on the fly. Pena threw the ball through the target three times and hit it six times.

Steinbach and Tettleton combined to throw the ball through the hole in the target only once.

--Relay throw: This contest, a race to get the ball from the warning track to home plate--outfielder to infielder to catcher--was 1-1 before the NL contingent of Chicago’s Andre Dawson and Ryne Sandberg and the Dodgers’ Mike Scioscia produced the winning relay. The trio defeated the AL team of Mike Greenwell of Boston, Julio Franco of Texas and Tettleton.

Roster change: Chicago pitcher Rick Sutcliffe will replace Houston’s Mike Scott, according to a Cub spokeswoman.

When Scott became unavailable because of a hamstring injury, Lasorda was granted permission to add a replacement pitcher. Lasorda said he submitted a list of three candidates to NL president Bill White--Sutcliffe, San Diego’s Ed Whitson and Montreal’s Dennis Martinez.

Montreal Manager and NL coach Buck Rodgers had been lobbying for Martinez.

“I think Denny should be here,” Rodgers said. “He’s overcome so many things--the alcohol, the sore shoulder. He’s 34 years old. How many more times is he going to have a chance to make it? . . . I don’t want him for a selfish point of view, but I want him from a human point of view.”

It is the third All-Star selection for Sutcliffe, 10-6 with a 3.50 ERA.

Bo Jackson stories were getting passed around both clubhouses, and San Francisco’s Will Clark, who played college baseball against Jackson, had one of the best.

Clark recalled the time when he was playing first base for Mississippi State and Jackson, playing for Auburn, hit a ground ball to shortstop.

“The throw was to the inside of the bag,” Clark said. “The next thing I knew, I was in the dugout. Bo flattened me. To this day, that’s probably the hardest I’ve ever been hit.

“I’ve never played football, but now I know how it feels to get your bell rung. And I got it rung by the best.”

Add Bo: Making his first All-Star appearance, Jackson was asked if he followed the mid-July game as a youth.

“No, I was too busy stealing bikes,” he quipped.

Jackson also called a USA Today players poll listing him as the second-best player in the game (behind Kirby Puckett) “a bunch of hogwash.”

“I’m still green. I know that. I’m in no rush. I’m learning something new every day. When the time comes for me to blossom, it’ll happen.”

Maybe the fans weren’t totally off-base by voting Mike Schmidt into the NL’s starting lineup. When Schmidt retired May 29, he had six home runs--a figure that surpasses the current home run totals of 10 NL All-Stars.

Although there has been some sentiment to allow Schmidt, retired or not, to play in tonight’s game, Lasorda was quick to dismiss the idea.

“When (many) fans voted for him, he was still playing,” Lasorda said. “The fans love him. And he was a great ballplayer.

“But he should not play. He’s retired from the game, he should not play.”

Schmidt will make an appearance tonight, but only to tip his cap to the crowd during pregame introductions.