A Grand Opening for Dodgers : Baseball: Treadway’s sacrifice fly gives them a 4-3 victory over Marlins. Rodriguez replaces Strawberry, has two hits.

It was no ordinary opening day for the Dodgers, what with the latest turmoil of Darryl Strawberry still plaguing them and the media more interested in the departed outfielder than in the new one.

But the Dodgers have played without Strawberry for most of the last two seasons, so it was nothing new Tuesday when they took the field at Dodger Stadium with somebody else in his place.

What was new was a certain feeling in the air that had nothing to do with the birds or the balloons, and everything to do with Jeff Treadway’s sacrifice fly, which gave the Dodgers a 4-3 victory over the Florida Marlins before 53,761.

“I would have hated to have the team face the postgame interviews after a loss today,” said starting pitcher Orel Hershiser, who gave up one run and four hits in six innings but didn’t get the decision.

“There would have been a momentum to it. Then we would get up and read all the quotes from the players, and then we would have to play another game, and it could go on. I think this puts a finality to it, not only to the Dodgers’ solution and Darryl’s solution but to the win, saying we have gone over the hurdle. Plus, maybe there won’t be as many media people here (tonight).”

The players say they feel badly for Strawberry, who was scheduled to enter a drug treatment center Tuesday, but believe this is a chance for the team to quit relying on him for their success. If this had to happen, they are glad it did before the season started.

“Actually, the timing of this couldn’t be better,” said Fred Claire, Dodger executive vice president.

The fans in the left-field pavilion regrouped quickly, singing a new chant, this one going: “Hen-ry.”

Henry Rodriguez, taking Strawberry’s place in left field, went two for three, with a double, and worked pitcher Jeremy Hernandez (0-1) for an eighth-inning leadoff walk, which eventually became the winning run.

Mitch Webster, running for Rodriguez in the eighth, broke for second base just before Hernandez pitched out to Jose Offerman. Webster reversed course and purposely ran into the path of the throw, which hit him and deflected past Orestes Destrade into the dugout. Webster was awarded third base, then scored the winning run on Treadway’s fly ball. It was one of four errors by the Marlins.

“That’s the veteran in Mitch,” Brett Butler said. “That was big. That won us the ballgame.”

Eric Karros, who has filled in for Strawberry at cleanup for most of the past two seasons, was there again, and if he keeps coming through the way he did Tuesday, he will stay there. Karros also went two for three, and his line drive to left in the seventh scored Delino DeShields to tie the score, 3-3.

“It’s a good way to start the season; we didn’t get the big hits, we just moved the ball from station to station,” Karros said.

To accomplish that, Lasorda kept the top of the order the same, with DeShields leading off, followed by Butler and Mike Piazza. Piazza has more power than Karros, but the No. 3 hitter gets more at-bats, and Piazza is the team’s best hitter.

“There was some discussion of putting Delino in the third spot,” Lasorda said. “Delino can’t steal as much with Piazza and Karros behind him, because you don’t want to take the bat out of their hands.”

DeShields, who scored two runs, and Butler, who scored one, debuted their tandem running game, and they even have their own signs. In the first inning, DeShields led off with a single and scored on Butler’s triple. But in the seventh, after the Dodgers fell behind, 3-2, DeShields knew he had to score. He walked, stole second and went to third on Butler’s sacrifice bunt. Then he scored on Karros’ liner to left.

“That’s just what I do, that’s part of my game,” DeShields said. “That’s how how we won a lot of games in Montreal. We didn’t have to get a lot of hits.”

Even Piazza, who is not known for speed, is trying to run more, but he was thrown out trying to take two bases on a passed ball in the first inning.

“I felt my feet were going but my legs were not moving,” Piazza said. “When I got to the dugout, the people looked at me kind of stupid. The best they were able to say was ‘Good hustle.’ ”

Jim Gott (1-0) entered the game at the start of the seventh inning and gave up a two-run homer to Kurt Abbott as the Marlins took a 3-2 lead. But he regrouped to pitch a perfect eighth before giving way to Todd Worrell.

Worrell, who had been sidelined and criticized most of last season, said he was nervous when he took the mound. But after he set the Marlins down in order to earn the save, Worrell made a comment that seemed to apply to the entire team.

“It was nerve-racking for me today, but once I get the first one under my belt it will settle down a little bit,” he said. “And hopefully, I will get in a groove and show some people here in L.A. and the Dodgers what I am capable of doing on a day-in and day-out basis.”

That’s what they all hope to do, without Darryl Strawberry.