Advertisement
Sports

BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : DODGERS : Gott Being Treated for a Sore Shoulder

By BILL PLASCHKE
Share

Jim Gott is nursing a sore shoulder and received a cortisone injection Thursday. It has not kept him from being available to pitch, but it is sore enough to require treatments of heat and ice. “We don’t think it’s anything real unusual,” said Charlie Strasser, assistant trainer.

Not all was lost for Ramon Martinez Thursday. When he returned home after his seven-game winning streak was ended by Cincinnati, he received a call from younger brother Pedro, who had been promoted from Class-A Bakersfield to double-A San Antonio. . . . Manager Tom Lasorda said that Jeff Hamilton’s appearance at shortstop in the ninth inning Thursday did not indicate a position change. . . . Orel Hershiser said his shoulder felt good Friday, and he remains on schedule to start Tuesday in St. Louis.

More to Read

Sports
Bill Plaschke

Bill Plaschke, an L.A. Times sports columnist since 1996, is a member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame and California Sports Hall of Fame. He has been named national Sports Columnist of the Year nine times by the Associated Press, and twice by the Society of Professional Journalists and National Headliner Awards. He is the author of six books, including a collection of his columns entitled “Plaschke: Good Sports, Spoilsports, Foul Balls and Oddballs.” Plaschke is also a panelist on the popular ESPN daily talk show, “Around the Horn.” He is in the national Big Brothers/Big Sisters Alumni Hall of Fame and has been named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Big Brothers/Big Sisters as well as receiving a Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women’s Law Center. Plaschke has appeared in a movie (“Ali”), a dramatic HBO series (“Luck”) and, in a crowning cultural moment he still does not quite understand, his name can be found in a rap song “Females Welcome” by Asher Roth.

More From the Los Angeles Times

Advertisement