BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : DODGERS : Strawberry’s Status Still Uncertain

For now, the Dodgers are not considering releasing Darryl Strawberry when he is ready to play.

‘That’s not something that we are thinking about,” said Fred Claire, Dodger executive vice president. “He is still a part of this team. He’s in (outpatient) treatment . . . when (Strawberry) is finished with his treatment, we will all sit down and talk.”

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Chan Ho Park made his fourth start for double-A San Antonio, and while he has yet to pitch more then five innings because he is on a pitch count, Claire said Park is doing well enough to be promoted to Los Angeles if the team has an opening.

“He has continued to make progress and is the leading candidate at this point,” said Claire, who added that he sees no need to promote Park to triple-A Albuquerque first. “He’s doing well there, and he’s getting a chance to pitch and spend time with (pitching coach) Burt Hooton. Whereas he loved it (in Los Angeles), he knew and we knew he was not getting enough pitching. There he pitches every five days.”

Park, who has started four games, has a 2.20 earned-run average with 25 strikeouts in 16 1/3 innings. But he has also given up 10 walks and made two wild pitches. In his start on Saturday, he gave up two home runs in 4 2/3 innings and was pulled from the game because he had already thrown 100 pitches.

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While batting in the fifth inning of Friday’s game, Pedro Astacio squared to bunt and the pitch hit his right hand. He stayed in the game and X-rays taken after the game were negative. But his hand swelled later that night, and was still swollen Sunday. Astacio said he doesn’t expect to skip his start Wednesday against the Houston Astros.

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Raul Mondesi’s bruised left heel has improved. “The problem is he jumps at the (first base) bag,” trainer Bill Buhler said. “We keep telling him not to do it, but he does it anyway.”. . . . Barry Bonds, starting his first game since being hit by a pitch on the elbow by the New York Mets’ Eric Hillman, still isn’t happy about it. “If he hits me again, he better call an ambulance,” Bonds said. “I’ll chase him into the clubhouse. I don’t care.” Bonds who didn’t start three games of this series, made up for it quickly Sunday, getting singles in his first two at-bats, including a run-scoring line drive in the third that put the Giants ahead, 2-0.

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Five of six Giants got hits in the third, including a softly hit single by pitcher Salomon Torres. But Torres hasn’t spent a lot of time running bases--it was his first hit this season--and after returning safely to the bag, he stepped off--and Eric Karros tagged him out.

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Al Osuna, whose Dodger debut came Saturday against Bonds in the 10th inning, said he got a full dose of the Dodger-Giant rivalry. “As soon as I took the mound, with the crowd and all, I could feel it,” Osuna said.