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BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : DODGERS : Strawberry Picks Up the Pace, but . . .

By BILL PLASCHKE
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Darryl Strawberry’s home run in the fourth inning Sunday gave him seven homers in his last 58 at-bats. It took him 40 at-bats to get his first homer this season.

Strawberry was asked if the struggling Dodgers have begun waiting for Strawberry to hit homers.

“I sure hope not,” Strawberry said. “That’s not how you win. Everybody has to be productive as a group, you can’t wait for one guy to do it.”

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As Strawberry continues to hit well--he is batting .329 in his last 20 games--Eddie Murray has only three hits in his last 30 at-bats. Juan Samuel is batting .207 in his last nine games after batting .221 in July.

The Dodger bullpen was 0-3 against Houston . . . The Dodgers have blown leads in six of their last eight losses.

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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.

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