Cubs Get to Gott in the 10th : Dodgers: With no help from his friends, he has second consecutive rocky outing, giving up three-run homer to Wilkins.

As Darryl Strawberry makes his news from the disabled list, the Dodgers carry on with their abled, a short list of minor league recalls and hopefuls.

With nothing much left to work with, Manager Tom Lasorda called on his bench Friday night against the Chicago Cubs and witnessed the best and worst of bench work.

After getting key plays from his reserves to keep the Dodgers in the game, the backups backfired in the 10th, leading the Cubs to an 8-5 victory before a Dodger Stadium crowd of 40,778.

Catcher Rick Wilkins capped a four-run 10th for the Cubs with a three-run home run off Jim Gott, whose record fell to 2-5.

Gott had given up a game-winning three-run homer to Houston’s Eric Anthony on Wednesday.

“Obviously, it’s kind of tough, getting bitten by it twice now,” Dodger catcher Mike Piazza said.

Gott didn’t get much help though. Jose Vizcaino beat out an infield single to open the 10th, then went to second on second baseman Lenny Harris’ throwing error. After being sacrificed to third, Vizcaino scored on a grounder to third baseman Mike Sharperson, who threw wildly to first for an error.

Harris was subbing for the injured Jody Reed. Sharperson had replaced Cory Snyder at third, after Snyder started in place of the injured Tim Wallach.

After an intentional walk to Mark Grace, Wilkins hit Gott’s 0-2 pitch for the clinching homer.

Snyder hit a solo homer in the bottom of the 10th, but it wasn’t enough to keep the Dodgers from their fourth loss in a row. Randy Myers (1-1) picked up the victory in relief.

Brett Butler summed up the Dodgers’ mood.

“Frustrated, the whole team is,” said Butler, who raised his average to .319 with four hits. “We have to rise to the occasion and show people we can play. We had a couple of chances, but we didn’t capitalize. It kind of grinds on you.”

The Dodger bench wasn’t all bad.

In the fifth inning, pinch-hitter Henry Rodriguez hit a three-run home run to pull the Dodgers even at 3-3.

After the Cubs regained the lead, 4-3, in the sixth, the Dodger bench rallied again. Harris ignited the Dodgers with a one-out single in the seventh.

Another pinch-hitter, Dave Hansen, followed with a perfect hit-and-run single through short, allowing Harris to move to third and later score the tying run on Butler’s double.

The Dodgers had a chance to take the lead, but Mitch Webster popped out with the bases loaded and Snyder struck out.

Where else could the Dodgers turn?

“We have nobody left,” Lasorda said.

Lasorda, looking to keep his team in contention, wasn’t waiting around long for saviors.

Down, 3-0, in the fifth, Lasorda wasted no time in lifting starter Pedro Astacio for pinch-hitter Rodriguez, who rewarded the decision with a blast into the right-field bullpen.

In the sixth, reliever Pedro Martinez didn’t hold up his end of the deal.

Almost before the Dodgers were through back-slapping Rodriguez, Martinez had runners at first and third with no outs after allowing a leadoff walk and a double.

Martinez fought back, striking out Wilkins and Sammy Sosa. Then he walked Rey Sanchez intentionally to face pitcher Jose Guzman.

Unlike Lasorda, Cub Manager Jim Lefebvre let his pitcher bat in a key scoring opportunity.

Guzman was batting .100 this year after spending his entire career before this season in the American League with its designated hitter.

But he hung in tough enough against Martinez to work a run-scoring walk on a 3-2 pitch, forcing in the go-ahead run.

For four innings, the Dodgers lingered in the hangover of the Houston series, having lost three of four to the Astros.

Friday, they managed one hit off Guzman through four, before breaking through.

Eric Davis walked to open the fifth. After a groundout, Harris beat out an infield single.

Then Lasorda motioned to Rodriguez, who had been recalled from Albuquerque on June 21.

Rodriguez had picked up his first hit of the season Thursday.

He picked up his second on Guzman’s first offering to tie the score.

The Cubs had broken a scoreless tie in the fourth with three runs off Astacio.

Guzman, the one rock remaining in his team’s depleted started rotation, gave up four runs in 6 1/3 innings.

This has been a dreadful month for Chicago pitchers, the Cubs having lost three starters--Mike Harkey, Mike Morgan and Greg Hibbard--to the disabled list in a span of three days from June 12 through the 14th.