BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : DODGERS : Candiotti Has a Pain in the Neck

Tom Candiotti was examined Wednesday by Robert Watkins for a neck pain he has had the last month and learned he has inflammation.

“It doesn’t affect my arm strength, but it did affect how I was throwing before, when I wasn’t getting my arm up. And Ron (Perranoski) saw that and we made some adjustments,” said Candiotti, who is being treated.

“You might have noticed my grimacing out there on the mound, because it makes it uncomfortable to keep my arm up. It’s easier to not come over the top. But I haven’t wanted to use that as an excuse for the last couple of times I have pitched, and it’s not bad enough for me to miss a start.”

Candiotti has given up 16 hits and 11 runs, 10 earned, in 14 1/3 innings over his last two starts.

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Injury update: Delino DeShields will have outpatient surgery today to remove a foreign body in his sprained finger. . . . With Jeff Treadway’s sprained right wrist in a cast, infielder Eddie Pye was called up from Albuquerque.