NAMES AND NUMBERS

Training Grounds: Davey Lopes and Bill Russell, the Dodgers’ former double-play combination, will both manage in the Arizona Fall League, Russell at Mesa and Lopes at Tucson. Russell is in his second year of managing the Dodgers’ triple-A affiliate at Albuquerque. It will be the first managerial assignment for Lopes, now on the Baltimore Orioles’ coaching staff.

“It’s only 54 games, but it’s enough to find out if I like it, if it’s something I want to pursue,” Lopes said. “It’ll keep my name out there and look good on the resume either way.”

San Francisco Giant Manager Dusty Baker made his managerial debut in Arizona last fall, the league’s first year of operation.

--Staggering: The Detroit Tigers are 6-16 since the All-Star break and 11-31 since June 20, when they were 18 games over .500. The fast start has been undermined by anticipated pitching problems.

The Tigers have used 55 different pitchers since the start of the 1989 season, the equivalent of a different 11-man staff every season.They have used 19 pitchers this season, two shy of a club record that Manager Sparky Anderson expects to break. The imminent recall of two youngsters, Ben Blomdahl and Frank Gonzales, will tie it.

“That would put us at 21, and I’ll find one more, don’t worry,” Anderson said.

--Rip Job: Chicago Cub Manager Jim Lefebvre, the former Dodger infielder who once decked Dodger Manager Tom Lasorda with a right cross and has criticized the breakdown of his former club’s farm department before, criticizes the Dodgers again in the current issue of Sport magazine:

“The deterioration of the Dodger organization is the talk of baseball among the insiders. People think the Dodgers still are a model organization, an organization that produces fundamentally sound clubs. (But) they are the worst fundamental club in baseball and have been for years.

“Why? They don’t work hard enough in spring training or during the season. They don’t take it seriously.”

Responded Lasorda: “That’s a crock. We work our butts off. Sure, we’ve been down, but few organizations bounce back like we do.”

--The Big Man: The Colorado Rockies went 4-13 when Andres Galarraga was sidelined because of a hamstring pull in May, and they are 0-12 since Galarraga went out because of a knee injury.

“You can take some good offensive guys out of a lineup, and the other guys pick it up,” Manager Don Baylor said, “but when you’re talking about a fourth-place hitter . . . now the other guys are trying to do too much.”

The knee injury is expected to keep Galarraga out of the lineup until late August and could prevent him from getting the required number of plate appearances to qualify for the batting title, though Baylor said he would be willing to use Galarraga as the leadoff hitter. “He’d be the biggest leadoff man in the history of the game,” Baylor said.

--Discipline: The Philadelphia Phillies lead the National League in home runs, but they also lead it in walks, with John Kruk, Lenny Dykstra and Darren Daulton ranking 1-2-3 in the league. Said Kruk: “Everybody always says a walk is as good as a hit, but everybody doesn’t always believe it. I guess we do.”