BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : DODGERS : Elster Doesn’t Want a Minor Role

Kevin Elster said Sunday that he will not stay with the Dodgers as a minor leaguer, an option he has until 5 p.m. today to exercise.

“I’ve done that already,” Elster said from his home in Huntington Beach. “I need to talk with (agent) Dennis (Gilbert) Monday and we will get on the horn and see what we can do. A couple of clubs have needs recently for a shortstop and I think our first call will be to Toronto.”

Elster said he would have liked to be a part of the Dodgers.

“I don’t know why Fred (Claire) sent me to San Antonio in the first place,” Elster said. “I think he had his mind made up already.”

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After Houston’s Ken Caminiti ran into the Dodgers’ dugout Sunday and reached over it to catch Eric Karros’ foul ball, Steve Wilson asked third base umpire Greg Bonin if the players could have interfered with Caminiti’s catch, which ended the Dodgers’ threat to tie the score.

“He said if we would have interfered, we would have obstructed him and it would have been an out,” Wilson said.

Manager Tom Lasorda asked the players why they didn’t simply stand up. Wilson said they thought the ball was going foul and looked up to see Caminiti in the dugout.

“It’s not like we sit there and practice the play,” Wilson said. “It’s not like we say, ‘OK, if a guy comes running in the dugout we will get up and run in front of him and pretend we are going to get something somewhere.’ ”

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The Astros’ sweep makes it 10 losses in a row for the Dodgers at the Astrodome. . . . The Dodgers are batting .267 in May, with seven home runs and 27 extra-base hits. They batted .227 in April, with 12 home runs, and stole 19 bases. Eric Davis got his his 13th stolen base Sunday. He is 13 for 13 in stolen bases and has 27 consecutive stolen bases dating to last season. . . . Todd Worrell pitched batting practice Sunday.