BASEBALL DAILY REPORT

Darryl Strawberry said he hopes to return to the lineup again today after missing sitting out Sunday’s game with a sore lower back.

Frank Jobe, the Dodgers’ medical director, concurred that he didn’t think the problem was serious, although Strawberry will probably be examined closer more closely today.

“It is just a tightening up of the muscles down there, something that maybe happened from playing on that artificial turf,” said Frank Jobe, the Dodgers’ medical director.

“It is the first time we’ve seen this in Darryl, but we don’t think it is anything big.”

Strawberry said his back didn’t feel much better Sunday, particularly when he was used as a pinch-hitter after spending the first seven innings on a chilly bench.

“But I know I should be in there, and I probably will be back in there,” he said. “It’s sore, but I think it will go away.”

The three-day attendance total at Candlestick Park--144,966--was the largest there since the Giants and Dodgers met on Oct. 1-3, 1982. That series ended with Joe Morgan’s game-winning home run that cost the Dodgers the division championship. . . . Jeff Hamilton, acting as the designated hitter, went hitless in four at-bats Saturday for triple-A Albuquerque against Colorado Springs in his first rehabilitation game.