Dodgers Put Giants Over the Coals, 11-2 : Baseball: A day after culinary abuse from fans, L.A. forces defending division champion to eat crow.

Those ever-inventive Dodger haters known as San Francisco Giant fans have really done it this time.

During Thursday’s victory by the Giants over the Dodgers here, they enraged Manager Tom Lasorda by endangering his team with the one act he cannot stomach. They threw food.

“They threw an entire hamburger at Kirk Gibson,” Lasorda complained shortly before Friday’s game. “Darn thing wasn’t even eaten. Could have hurt him.”

Hours later, what Lasorda’s Dodgers did to the Giants made a food fight look like a picnic. A team that had scored four runs on 18 hits in its three previous games ground up the Giants for 11 runs on 17 hits in an 11-2 victory.

“It’s not easy for us to win here, I’ve never seen fans get on a team like they get on us,” said Lenny Harris, who had three hits and scored three runs for the Dodgers. “We know, if you are not prepared for it, these fans can blow you right out of Candlestick. Tonight, we knew all of us had to give it 100%.”

In ending their three-game losing streak and pulling to within eight games of the first-place Cincinnati Reds, the results were as loud as those fans.

Hubie Brooks had four hits, and with a favorable scoring decision could have easily had five. Eddie Murray increased his hitting streak to a Dodger season-high 14 games with two hits and two RBIs. Kal Daniels had two hits. Gibson walked twice, singled, and scored three times.

“Now, if we can just come back here (today) and do it again,” Brooks said. “You know the Giants are going to come out swinging. The Giants are as hungry as us.”

Both teams will probably be hungry. The game will start at 12:15 p.m. PDT to accommodate a CBS television broadcast. The second-place Giants, 3 1/2 games ahead of the Dodgers, will be thankful that at least one member of the Dodger lineup will be missing.

That will be pitcher Ramon Martinez, who won after a Dodger loss for the seventh time this season, the true indicator of a staff ace. Martinez gave up six hits and struck out five in improving his major league leading strikeout total to 164. It was his eighth complete game, which also leads the majors.

He gave up five hits in the first three innings, but only one in the final six innings. By the time he settled down, the game was over thanks to the Dodgers’ offense. The Dodgers scored three runs in the first and second innings and then relaxed.

“But I noticed that the Giants’ fans didn’t even leave until the eighth inning,” Harris said. “That’s what kind of fans they got here.”

Said Lasorda: “There are the world’s worst fans here, and they ruin it for all the good ones who want to come to these games but don’t want to be around these people.

“They stand behind our dugout and throw stuff and shout such obscenities. There are a lot of good fans, but they are overshadowed by all the bad ones.”

The damage was mostly inflicted upon pitcher Scott Garrelts, who five days earlier pitched a one-hitter against the Reds. In that game, he came within one out of throwing a no-hitter. In this game, he gave up four hits before getting an out.

Harris started the game with a double to right. Gibson then singled past first baseman Gary Carter to score Harris, who is batting .317 with 31 runs in 199 lead-off at-bats.

Daniels then singled to center, moving Gibson to third. Up stepped Murray, who lined a single to right to score Gibson and move Daniels to third.

Garrelts, who complained of a sore elbow after he was removed in the second inning, finally kept the ball in the infield when Brooks hit a grounder to third baseman Matt Williams. But the ball skipped off a lunging Williams’ glove for an error, loading the bases. One out later, Mike Sharperson flied to left to score the third run of the inning.

After Garrelts retired Martinez on a grounder in the second inning, Harris singled again. Gibson walked. After Daniels flied out, Murray worked a walk to load the bases for Brooks, who was hitting .500 with 13 RBIs in eight at-bats with the bases loaded.

Now he is batting .556 with 15 RBIs. He singled to left, driving in two runs. Brooks, who is hitting .315 in his last 31 games, increased his average to .262.

Dodger Notes

The Dodgers have positioned themselves to make a deal before the Aug. 31 deadline for postseason eligibility by placing virtually the entire team on waivers, Vice President Fred Claire confirmed. In what is a common maneuver, Claire has placed all but pitcher Jim Neidlinger on waivers in hopes that no team will claim any player within 72 working-day hours. If a player is claimed, Claire must pull him back off waivers, and cannot trade him for 30 days--meaning he probably will remain with the team through the end of the season. If a player is not claimed, he can be traded.

This procedure is important as it pertains to Kirk Gibson, whom the Dodgers will probably attempt to trade if they fall out of the race. “To my knowledge, no player off our team has been claimed,” Claire said. If Claire placed the players on waivers on Wednesday, as believed, the final day for claiming is Monday.

It is still possible, even probable, that Gibson could be claimed by contending teams fearful that other contenders will acquire him.

The Giants’ Will Clark missed a third consecutive game because of a strained groin muscle. In the last six games between these teams, Clark, batting .476 against the Dodgers this year, has played once. . . . Dodger relief pitcher Don Aase, suffering from a tender shoulder, began a rehabilitation assignment at Class-A Bakersfield.