PADRES UPDATE : NOTEBOOK / SCOTT MILLER : Stadium Beefs Up Security In Wake of Civil Disturbances

The riots in Los Angeles and elsewhere continued to cast a shadow over things at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium on Friday night:

--The Padres always increase security on a sellout--it was Cap Night--but Padre officials said they increased security even more than usual Friday. They declined to say by how much.

--Jim Ferguson, Padre director of media relations, confirmed that the Dodgers talked to the Padres about the possibility of moving their weekend series with the Expos to San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium, but that idea was scrapped Friday afternoon.

The Dodgers and Expos would have played in San Diego this afternoon, before the Padre-Cardinal game, and again Sunday night, after the Padre-Cardinal game. But the Dodgers ended up postponing the entire series. The Expos will work out in San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium this morning and then fly home to Montreal this afternoon.

--Darrin Jackson finally got through the busy telephone circuits and reached his in-laws in Los Angeles, and the news certainly wasn’t what he and his wife, Darlene, had hoped.

Although his mother- and father-in-law were doing about as well as could be expected, Jackson’s brother-in-law was robbed at gunpoint.

“He’s as OK as he can be,” Jackson said. “But somebody puts a gun to your head, you don’t know if you’ll ever be OK.

“When I was 17 or 18, a guy pointed a fake gun at me. I thought it was real for about two seconds, but it felt like 15 minutes.”

Jackson said his in-laws live off of Washington and Crenshaw in downtown Los Angeles, in the house in which Darlene grew up.

“A whole bunch of stores that we go to when we’re there have been burned down,” Jackson said.

Jackson, who is also from Los Angeles, said fear of police was a way of life while he was growing up.

“L.A. has been known for this for a long time,” he said. “I’ve lived in L.A.; I’ve heard the stories.

“My mother told me, ‘Put your hands on your steering wheel if you’re ever pulled over and don’t move.’ It’s a damn shame you have to fear when you’re pulled over for speeding.”

Larry Andersen, who has been sidelined since taking a line drive in the forearm off the bat of Philadelphia’s Mariano Duncan Monday, pitched off the bullpen mound Friday and was disappointed in the results.

“It’s still sore,” Andersen said. “When I accelerate down through the ball, I get a sharp pain. They said it’s the fluid pressing on the nerves.”

Andersen threw for only about five minutes before retiring to the clubhouse. Both he and Padre Manager Greg Riddoch said Andersen will not be placed on the disabled list.

“No,” Riddoch said. “We said three to five days, so it will be a couple of more days. We’re still on track.”

Infielder Kurt Stillwell returned to the lineup Friday after missing two games with a dislocated ring finger on his right hand.

Stillwell said the finger still hurts, but not as much as the knee he bruised in Houston on April 18.

“It’s playable,” Stillwell said.

San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium was inundated with Hall of Fame radio broadcasters. Jack Buck was in town with the Cardinals, and former Tiger radio announcer Ernie Harwell was in town to broadcast tonight’s game for CBS radio. It is Harwell’s first time in San Diego since the 1984 World Series. ... Cardinal outfielder Ray Lankford was rested Friday night after going 0 for eight four strikeouts in San Francisco.