BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : DODGERS : Davis Continues Outfield Movement

For the first time in Eric Davis’ career, he played a third different outfield position in three days Tuesday when he moved to right field, where he will remain until Darryl Strawberry returns.

Davis has not started in right field since May 24, 1989, but he said the adjustment should be minimal.

“The whole thing is positioning yourself,” he said. “But once they go through the order one time, I’ll be fine.”

Mitch Webster, hobbled with a sore right hip, was available only as a pinch-hitter Tuesday. . . . The Montreal Expo players have formally protested the scheduling of three consecutive doubleheaders with the Dodgers in July. Brett Butler has also spoken to the Players Assn. on behalf of his teammates.

Kiki Jones, the Dodgers’ former first-round draft choice who was arrested for insurance fraud last week, has been placed on the temporarily inactive list and will not rejoin the Class-A Vero Beach Dodgers until the end of this week. Jones, one of the Dodgers’ three first-round selections in the 1989 draft, went 8-0 with a 1.58 earned-run average in Great Falls (Mont.) in the rookie league that summer, but has struggled with arm trouble ever since. . . . Mike Piazza was hitting .346 with three RBIs after six games with triple-A Albuquerque.