BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : DODGERS : Lasorda a Winner . . . Behind the Plate

In a contest as intriguing as the flight of a knuckleball, Manager Tom Lasorda claimed to have won dinner from his coaches Friday by catching six of 10 pitches thrown by Tom Candiotti.

His coaches disagreed. “Yeah, he caught six . . . out of 20,” bullpen coach Mark Cresse said.

“Jealous, sore losers,” Lasorda said.

The contest featured Lasorda wearing a chest protector on his chest and another on his back. Lasorda missed the first three pitches because, he said, he couldn’t see through the mask. So he removed it.

“I got kind of scared,” Candiotti said. “I thought I might hurt him.” But Lasorda survived and caught six of the next 10, the last one off his wrist.

“Nobody here can stand it when I win,” Lasorda said.

Eric Davis, sidelined because of a shoulder separation, rejoined the team in Chicago, even though he will not be allowed to bat or catch fly balls for at least several days.

“I want to be here to help, even if it just means one more voice in the dugout,” Davis said. “I think it’s important for the players not to see me sitting back and relaxing.”

The Dodgers will be switching television stations next season, going from Channel 11 to Channel 5, but their flagship radio station will remain the same. The Dodgers and KABC announced Friday that they have reached a new five-year agreement that will run from 1993 through 1997. KABC has been the Dodgers’ flagship station since 1974. . . . Vin Scully will miss the television broadcasts today and Sunday because he is in Los Angeles receiving the 1992 Governors Emmy Award for special contribution to television in Los Angeles.