Dodgers Talk, but Result Is Another Loss : Baseball: After a clubhouse meeting, they lose their fifth game in a row, 3-2, to the Colorado Rockies.

Some in the crowd of 38,421 may have come to Dodger Stadium on Wednesday night anticipating a fight, but that didn’t happen. Ramon Martinez faced the Colorado Rockies for the first time since he was involved in brawls on June 15, but there were no incidents.

The Dodgers lost their fifth consecutive game, 3-2, to the Rockies. Colorado starting pitcher Armando Reynoso (8-8) held the Dodgers to seven hits and went three for four. The Rockies had 14 hits in eight innings off Martinez (8-7).

The Dodgers, who dropped to 19 games behind the San Francisco Giants and lost their third in a row to the Rockies, who are in the cellar in the National League West.

With a victory today, the Rockies can sweep the Dodgers.

It was not quite what Dodger Manager Tom Lasorda had hoped for when he canceled batting practice Wednesday and called a team meeting at 6 p.m.

Like the crowd, some of the Dodgers might have come to the stadium Wednesday anticipating a fighting-mad manager, but that didn’t happen either. Unlike the last meeting he held, when he went into a tirade, Lasorda barely raised his voice. One player said Lasorda didn’t yell at all--at least until later, when a reporter asked him how the meeting went.

“If I would have wanted you to know, I would have invited you in,” he said.

When Lasorda finished talking, Orel Hershiser asked the players to stay for a meeting. When Hershiser finished talking, Jody Reed spoke.

“Orel said there had been something he had been thinking about that he wanted to tell us, and he did,” Cory Snyder said. “Basically--kind of like Tommy was saying--Orel just said that we need to be pulling for each other. When somebody makes an error, we need to support that guy and help him. We discussed how we need to think as a team, rather than individuals, and think about each other. Because when you think about each other, rather than yourself, you start pulling as a team. Jody said basically the same thing.”

Tempers had heightened during the Dodgers’ current losing streak, but tension existed long before that. Underscoring the tension is the sometimes lackluster play of Jose Offerman, which appears to have led to friction and factions in the clubhouse. That’s been compounded during this home stand with some players questioning the intensity of other players and the general nondirection of the Dodger organization.

“It’s not for lack of intensity,” Tim Wallach said. “I think the guys are trying--maybe trying too hard.”

Wednesday night, the Dodgers were held in check by Reynoso, who took a five-hitter into the eighth inning. With one out, Brett Butler hit his second double of the game and scored on a grounder by Offerman to allow the Dodgers to close to within 3-2.

Reynoso was relieved by Steve Reed, who got Eric Davis to force Offerman at second. After Davis stole his 28th base, Reed got Eric Karros to foul out to catcher Danny Sheaffer.

Reed finished for his second major league save.

“Things are going just as the season has gone,” Butler said before the game. “We have great days and bad days. There are players who want to play and players who don’t. There are some players who get upset when we lose, and other players who couldn’t care less. There are some who have given up on the season, and others who won’t give up until we are mathematically eliminated.

“This is common for a losing team, but not a winning team. A winning team is all on the same page, pulling on the same side of the rope, as Tommy would say. At times it has been that way this season, such as when we were in the winning streak and we were laughing and joking and kidding. And at times it hasn’t been.

“This is one of the lowest points of the season.”