Home No Solace for the Dodgers : Baseball: They lose for the 11th time in the past 13 games, 4-1 to Mets, getting only four hits against three pitchers.

With his back in a brace and his name out of the lineup, Darryl Strawberry was asked early Friday night if the Dodgers could win without him.

“The way we are going right now, no,” he said.

It was the soundest hit by a Dodger all night. Strawberry watched his teammates fall for the 11th time in 13 games, a 4-1 loss to the New York Mets before 41,222 at Dodger Stadium.

“It’s like being in quicksand,” Manager Tom Lasorda said. “The harder you try to get out of it, the tougher it is.”

Contrary to their hopes, the first game of this home stand did not cure the Dodgers’ ills. It only served to put them on display before fans who have been waiting for two weeks to boo.

Batting .183 in the last seven games, they collected only four hits against starter Bret Saberhagen and relievers Wally Whitehurst and John Franco.

Then Bob Ojeda, pitching a one-hitter through five innings, was made to pay for four walks in the sixth inning when Bill Pecota cleared the bases with a double.

Ojeda departed after eight inning, having given up only three hits but having thrown 56 balls and 54 strikes.

The Dodger pitching staff, once the finest in baseball, ranks 10th in the league with 128 walks. They are on a pace to give up 669 walks, a team record.

“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t pressing,” said Ojeda, who averaged only three walks per nine innings before this season. “I’m trying to be too fine. I’m trying to keep the score too low.”

If all of this is starting to look familiar, well, look at last weekend in New York.

In a game involving the same starting pitchers, Ojeda walked four in the first inning for two runs and the offense collected only five hits in the Mets’ 5-2 victory.

As bad as the Dodgers look on the field, they look worse in the clubhouse.

Before the game the players learned that Strawberry would miss his fifth start in a week because of spasms in his strained back muscles, and Juan Samuel would miss at least two more weeks with his broken finger.

Strawberry, who injured the back on the artificial turf in Philadelphia last week, is suffering from spasms that were so bad, he probably will miss at least one more day.

He could even be a candidate for the disabled list.

“We didn’t want to do that (put him on the disabled list) tonight because we want to give it one day and see if it shows improvement,” Dr. Frank Jobe said.

Said Lasorda: “I know one thing, just one time I would like to have all the guys I started the season with in there at the same time.”

His opening-day lineup has started three of 31 games.

Strawberry said he probably tried to rejoin his struggling teammates too soon after missing the weekend series in New York and the first game in Montreal.

“I tried to come back fast. . . ,” Strawberry said. “Now it hurts when I cough.”

Samuel will miss two more weeks because, after a CAT scan on his middle finger, doctors determined it should remain in a splint.

With another lineup that was not like the one they fielded opening day, the Dodgers took a 1-0 lead in the fifth inning when Dave Hansen walked and Ojeda tripled down the right-field line under the glove of Eddie Murray.

It was Ojeda’s first hit in 12 at-bats but his pleasure ended in the top of the sixth inning, when he walked four of the first five hitters before giving up a three-run double to Pecota.

“I was fine from my run. I’m in pretty good shape,” he said, “and I nearly got the call on (Willie) Randolph. Then it was a blur. Next thing I’m walking off and they have three ‘points’ on one hit.”

He nearly survived the inning when Howard Johnson grounded into a double play after Randolph and Dick Schofield had started the inning with walks.

But with Randolph standing on third, Ojeda walked Murray--who is hitless in nine at-bats against his former team this year--and Bobby Bonilla.

Pecota, who had two extra base hits and six RBIs, hit Ojeda’s first-pitch fastball to the base of the left-field wall, scoring three runs.

That was all the Mets needed to deflate the Dodgers, who had struck out eight times in the first four innings. But Saberhagen, who was nursing a strained ligament in his right index finger, could not continue after the finger became inflamed in the fifth inning.

The Mets completed the scoring in the ninth against reliever Tim Crews after pinch-hitter Chico Walker hit a two-out single and stole second and third. Willie Randolph singled to score Walker. Crews has given up three runs in his last two-thirds of an inning covering two appearances.