Dodgers Out in Left Field Against Padres : Baseball: Strawberry has ball bounce off glove for home run, and Gwynn leads San Diego to 14-2 rout. Trlicek, Sheffield ejected.

Not much can top the home run that bounced off Jose Canseco’s head and over the fence, but Darryl Strawberry came up with his own bizarre version Thursday in the San Diego Padres 14-2 victory over the Dodgers.

Tony Gwynn hit a line drive to deep left field and Strawberry, running toward the fence, put his glove up to make the catch. But the ball hit off the top of Strawberry’s glove and was propelled over the fence, providing Gwynn with his second home run of the season.

“That damn left field,” said Strawberry, who while on the disabled list was replaced in right field by Cory Snyder.

The tale of the tape measured the home run this way: 350 feet to Strawberry’s glove and 11 feet on the bounce from his glove over the fence.

The sparse afternoon crowd of 18,151 at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium measured Gwynn’s home run in laughter and cheers while Gwynn recorded it as only the first of three hits that had him within distance of hitting for the cycle. Gwynn also hit a double, a triple, knocked in four runs and scored three.

But a bench-clearing melee in the sixth inning ended Gwynn’s chance to add the single, when Gwynn, whom Padre Manager Jim Riggleman might have replaced anyway because of a chronic knee problem, was hit in the knee during the brawl and left the game.

Suffice to say it was a bad day for the Dodgers, who were clobbered by four home runs by the Padres. The 14 runs were the most by San Diego since it scored 17 against the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 18, 1989.

Two of the home runs came in the third inning off Ramon Martinez (5-4) and two in the eighth off reliever Todd Worrell, who in his last two outings has given up six runs--including three home runs--in two innings of relief.

“We were just flat,” said Brett Butler, who got one of the Dodgers’ seven hits. “Some days are just like this.”

But the day was downright awful for reliever Rick Trlicek, who entered the game in relief of Martinez to pitch the fifth inning with the Dodgers trailing, 4-1. By the time Trlicek took the mound in the sixth, the score was 6-2, with the Dodgers’ second run coming on a home run by Tim Wallach, his seventh.

It was the way Trlicek left the mound during the sixth inning that was the most interesting.

With the Padres ahead, 10-2, Trlicek was ejected after he hit Gary Sheffield with a pitch--the second batter he hit in the inning--setting off a melee as Sheffield tackled Trlicek and pinned him beneath a pile of Padres.

Sheffield, who came to bat after Gwynn had legged out a three-run triple and scored on a single, was ahead of Trlicek on the count, 3-0, when he took a big swing on Trlicek’s next pitch.

“It was a huge cut on the 3-0 count and that, coupled with the frustrating day, hey, those guys are competitors,” Jim Gott said.

Trlicek’s next pitch hit Sheffield in the back. Sheffield dropped his bat and charged the mound. Trlicek dropped his glove and cap and waited for Sheffield, who lunged at the pitcher while the Padres jumped in and the Dodgers tried to fight them off.

“I saw Carlos (Hernandez’s) shin guards as I was going down, so I knew help was on its way,” said Trlicek, who got a few scrapes.

Trlicek said Sheffield, who also was ejected, didn’t say anything to him. “I don’t think he was thinking about talking.”

After the game, Sheffield still wasn’t in the mood for words. “I really don’t want to talk about it,” he said.

Trlicek said he didn’t throw at Sheffield, but Sheffield clearly was an easier target than the strike zone, which Worrell also had trouble finding. One of the back-to-back home runs given up by Worrell was hit by Phil Plantier, a shot to right measuring 421 feet.

Martinez also gave up two homers, but one came on the assist by Strawberry.

“Playing left field after playing right field my entire career is a big adjustment, just one of many that are going to have to be made,” Strawberry said.