BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : WORLD SERIES / TORONTO BLUE JAYS vs. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES : Phillies Prove They Are Used to the Wee Hours

Toronto General Manager Pat Gillick, on the 3 1/2 hours it has taken to complete each of the first two games of the World Series, with each ending after midnight in the East: “It’s almost like the Ironman Classic: ‘Who can stay up 14 nights in a row, past 3 in the morning?’ ”

Phillie leadoff hitter Lenny Dykstra wouldn’t mind if the games lasted longer.

“We like to play at night,” he said. “The later it gets, the better we play.”

Added bullpen stopper Mitch Williams: “Hey, we do some of our best work at 4 in the morning.”

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Williams on the Phillies’ image: “We’ve got very few GQ clothes horses on this team, other than (Darren) Daulton. Darren might be every woman’s dream, but if you look at me and John Kruk, they’re not going to be banging our doors down to be on the cover of a magazine.

“Neither one of us would do it anyway, unless it was Horse and Rider.”

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Phillie scout Jimmy Stewart, when asked to compare Blue Jay second baseman Roberto Alomar with other great second basemen: “There are no peers. He’s the best I’ve ever seen, and probably the best we’ll ever see.”

Kruk on Alomar, his former teammate with San Diego: “I used to play on the line and head to first all the time because he caught everything else. He doesn’t win Gold Gloves every year for nothing.”

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Reliever Roger Mason, on being a born-again Christian on the Phillies: “I hear the word God all the time in here. This is a wild group. They’ve earned their reputation. It hasn’t been just their appearance.

“It’s tougher being here (as a Christian) than on some of the recent teams I’ve been with. God’s going to put you where he wants to. This might be a seed-planting ministry.”

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Phillie starter Curt Schilling on the neurological disorder that afflicts outfielder Jim Eisenreich: “Compared to what’s wrong with most of us, Tourette’s Syndrome is like having a common cold.”

Said relief pitcher Larry Andersen of Eisenreich, who hit a three-run homer in Game 2: “Hey, after that game, they should rename the (disorder) after him.”

Andersen, 40, on not being used in consecutive postseason games: “I don’t think it’s a matter of my not being able to pitch in back-to-back games. Heck, at my age, sometimes it’s tough to get out of bed on back-to-back mornings.”

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The only Blue Jay pitchers with a major league hit are starter Dave Stewart, who has a .196 career batting average, and relievers Danny Cox, batting .110, and Tony Castillo, 083. Stewart, however, is not scheduled to pitch again until Saturday, if the Series returns to Toronto, when the designated hitter will be used again.

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The Phillies returned home not only complaining about what they perceived to be abusive behavior by Blue Jay fans in Toronto, but the location of their families’ seats.

“I’ve got nothing against cheering hard and all that,” Williams said. “But I think sticking a finger in somebody’s mom or dad’s face is uncalled for. I just think that’s extremely rude.

“They turn around and point fingers in my fiancee’s and mother’s face whenever (the Blue Jays) do something good, and yell in their faces. That stuff is uncalled for.

“They’ll find out what Philadelphia’s like because they haven’t seen a crowd until they go to Philadelphia. They’re going to see the mutants in Philadelphia, and I mean that kindly.”

Starter Danny Jackson’s parents and Kruk’s father were among those upset by their seat locations. They were seated in SkyDome’s top deck, only a few rows beneath the roof.

“I hope the Toronto families are seated in the parking lot,” said Patty Jackson, Danny Jackson’s mother.

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Blue Jay right fielder Joe Carter has brought his parents, Joe and Athelene, from Oklahoma City with him to Philadelphia. “This is where you get a chance to pay your parents back for all the headaches you caused them,” Carter said. “And all the ball games they carted you around to.” . . . Dykstra has hit safely in 20 of his 22 postseason games, with a .608 slugging percentage.