Vin Scully returns home and plans to call Sunday’s game in Arizona

Reporting from Phoenix — 

Pitcher Jeff Weaver spoke for the Dodgers faithful Friday when he said of Vin Scully: “That’s outstanding news.”

The news was that the Dodgers’ Hall of Fame broadcaster had returned home Friday morning after spending the night in a hospital following a fall at his Hidden Hills home.

Scully, 82, rose from bed too quickly Thursday night and fell and hit his head, prompting the hospital visit as a precaution, the Dodgers said.

He returned home Friday morning and made plans to travel to Arizona for the telecast of Sunday’s Cactus League game between the Dodgers and Cleveland Indians.

Weaver, who grew up in Southern California listening to Scully, said, “To see that he had a speedy recovery and he’s going to be back this weekend to televise a game is something Dodgers fans are definitely looking forward to. He’s the voice of the franchise.”

Dodgers Manager Joe Torre said Friday night that he spoke with Scully earlier in the day and “he’s fine. He sounded perfectly normal.”

“I guess he’s had a cold and jumped up quickly or something and got a little dizzy,” Torre said.

Scully issued a statement of thanks “to everyone for their thoughts and prayers, and I apologize for any concern that I caused. Most importantly, I’m looking forward to Sunday’s game, my first of the Spring.”

Inducted into the broadcaster’s wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1982, Scully is starting his 61st season as a Dodgers broadcaster. He is scheduled to broadcast the Dodgers’ home games and their road games against teams in the West divisions of both leagues.

Haeger’s handicap

Whether or not knuckleballer Charlie Haeger lands the fifth spot in the Dodgers’ starting rotation might have little to do with his pitching statistics this spring, Torre said.

That’s because the relatively dry, thin air in Arizona isn’t conducive to getting the best results from the knuckleball, which tends not to dance as much as when the air is more humid, he said.

“We have to take into account this environment is not going to help him,” Torre said of Haeger, who has allowed three earned runs in six innings this spring. “That’s been the history of knuckleball pitchers, here and in Denver and places like that.”

And finally

As Ronald Belisario remains in his native Venezuela because of visa problems, someone on the Dodgers placed a color photocopy depicting the relief pitcher — with the words “Most Wanted” above the picture — on a clubhouse wall.

james.peltz@latimes.com