BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : DODGERS : Shoulder Still Sore, Strawberry Says

Darryl Strawberry said Saturday that his left shoulder has hurt every day since he suffered a mild separation May 15, and that it probably would not feel completely sound until after the season.

“The doctors said it will probably take a month before it gets better, but I know it’s the kind of thing where it will probably bother me until I just shut it down at the end of the season,” Strawberry said while stretching the shoulder and wincing. “Every day it is stiff. Every day I feel it. But that’s OK. You know I’m not coming out of the lineup. I’ll play all beat up.”

The shoulder injury seems to have helped Strawberry’s power. Before the injury, Strawberry had two home runs and nine runs batted in 109 at-bats. Since the injury, Strawberry had five homers and 15 RBIs in 47 at-bats.

Orel Hershiser was able to throw between starts for the first time since his shoulder began bothering him in the spring of 1990. He threw 35 pitches in preparation for his second start Tuesday in St. Louis.

“It felt really good, especially when you consider I couldn’t do this before,” Hershiser said. “Before my operation, it was all I could do to survive from start to start. There was no way I could even think about throwing between starts.”

The Dodgers have no players on the disabled list for the first time since September of 1986. . . . Relief pitcher Jim Gott said that the fact he received a cortisone shot in his shoulder Thursday does not mean he is seriously hurt. “If I were a starter, I could take some anti-inflammatory pills between starts and be fine,” Gott said. “But I needed to feel better fast.” Gott said his soreness arose when he changed pitching mechanics after he walked in a run against the New York Mets May 19. That game was the beginning of four consecutive days of work for Gott.