BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : DODGERS : Lasorda Is Cut Out for This Sight Gag

The national anthem was already being sung when Manager Tom Lasorda arrived on the field before Friday night’s game. Lasorda stepped onto the field, took his place in line and couldn’t believe what was standing next to him.

Roger McDowell, along with a couple of other players, had someone make a life-size, cardboard cutout of Lasorda and had set it up on the field in line with the other players.

“Lately I have been a little late getting out there, I’ve been on the phone or something,” Lasorda said. “So I get out there last night, and I get in line and I look next to me, and I couldn’t believe it. It looks just like me. It even had my hand over my heart.”

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Chan Ho Park pitched four scoreless innings Friday night in his first start for double-A San Antonio against El Paso. Park gave up two hits, struck out seven and and walked none. . . . Darren Dreifort has an 0.73 earned-run average in seven games and 12 1/3 innings. He has given up one earned run and retired six of the first seven batters he has faced entering games.

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Rodney Henderson lasted only two innings, but the fact that he was on the mound at all Saturday night is pretty amazing. In his first season with the Expos at their single-A club in 1992, he and four other members of the team were involved in a serious auto accident, when the car they were in swerved off the road. Two of his teammates never made it back to the game. Henderson suffered two broken vertebrae and a broken right wrist, and he not only made it back, but had a combined record of 17-7 in 1992, pitching both in single and double A.

Henderson is in his third year in professional baseball and was called up from the Expos’ double-A club a week ago when John Wetteland went on the disabled list.