Phillies Feel OK After Going Bump in Night : Philadelphia: Despite misplay in the outfield and missed chances at the plate, they say it’s only one game.

The ball was hit hard by Devon White to left-center field. Lenny Dykstra ran for it from center, and Milt Thompson ran back from left. Dykstra called for it, and so did Thompson, who cut in front of Dykstra and then missed the ball.

Did he hear Dykstra?

“With 50,000 people screaming?” Thompson asked.

There appeared to be some angry words exchanged, but Thompson said there weren’t.

“We just said that we have to peek at each other more,” Thompson said. “Both of us were running hard. It’s the first time it’s happened all year.”

White scored on a sacrifice fly by Joe Carter to tie the score, 3-3, in the third inning, but it was only one of the many downhill turning points for the Phillies.

The Phillies outhit the Toronto Blue Jays, 11 to 10, but left 11 runners on base on their way to an 8-5 loss in Game 1 of the World Series.

“It’s nothing to panic about; we weren’t supposed to be here anyway, right?” said John Kruk, who was three for four, knocked in two runs, scored two and walked. “And (tonight) we get Dave Stewart. What is he, 90-0 in the playoffs or World Series? Shouldn’t be that tough. Hope he’s due for a loss.”

The one time Kruk didn’t get a hit, he struck out with the bases loaded against left-handed relief pitcher Al Leiter.

“I thought he struck me out with a slider, but someone told me it was a fastball,” Kruk said. “So now, if this guy comes in again (tonight) I’ll have something more I’m going to have to think about.”

But his disappointment was not as visible as that of Curt Schilling, who pitched superbly in his two starts in the National League playoffs and won the most-valuable-player award.

“I was terrible,” said Schilling, who was charged with seven runs--six earned--and eight hits in 6 1/3 innings. “Any time you can score four runs off a guy like Juan Guzman you have to win that game. I didn’t do the job, I failed. And when I fail, the whole team has to pay for it. We got the lead three times and I gave it back to them. You can’t do that.”

Schilling had given up five runs--four earned--through six innings. But in the seventh, after he struck out Ed Sprague, Pat Borders singled to center and Rickey Henderson hit a hard single to left. That was all for Schilling, who handed the ball to Manager Jim Fregosi and took a spot on the bench next to pitching coach Johnny Podres. Several of the players approached him, but Schilling didn’t respond.

“I had no doubts going out there, and I was a little anxious when I walked Rickey to lead off the game, but after that I got the double play and I felt good,” said Schilling, who gave up two home runs, one to White in the fifth inning that tied the score at 4-4 and another in the sixth to John Olerud, who hit Schilling’s first pitch out to put the Blue Jays ahead to stay.

“I threw Olerud the best changeup I’ve ever thrown,” Schilling said. “I did my homework the best I could, but didn’t get it done tonight. The only approval I look for is from the guys in the locker room, and you get that when you get results. But this is not a club that is going to dwell on it.”

With runners at the corners with one out and the Phillies trailing by 5-4 in the seventh, reliever David West gave up a run-scoring double to White and a two-run double to Roberto Alomar. While Larry Andersen was warming up on the mound to relieve West, Dykstra and Thompson huddled.

“We just talked about how we need to try to shut them down, but by then we were down by three,” said Thompson, who made a great catch at the wall of a drive by Paul Molitor to save two more runs and finally end the inning.

Both West and Andersen were acquired by the Phillies before this season and pitched well during the regular season, with both of them finishing with a winning record and a 2.92 earned run average. West held hitters to a .194 batting average but has been dismal in the postseason.

“It’s happened before; we won’t lose any sleep over it,” Kruk said. “If it wasn’t for West or Andersen, we wouldn’t be here right now. They are grown men, they will bounce back.”

Darren Daulton said that he knew early that Schilling didn’t have his good stuff. “Sometimes you have it, sometimes you don’t,” he said. “But we aren’t putting ourselves in a have-to situation about (tonight’s) game. We definitely want to win to get a split here, but we don’t have to. That’s the way it has been all year. When our backs are against the wall, we come through.”