Stars’ Scott getting into his swing

Tuesday, July 2, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

After sitting at home for the first 10 weeks of the season, Las Vegas Stars third baseman Gary Scott said he knew it would take some time before he made the adjustment to live pitching and got comfortable at the plate.

He just didn't expect it to come this soon. Scott continued his weeklong offensive tear Monday night with a two-run home run in the Stars' 8-6 loss to Colorado Springs at Cashman Field.

In his past six games, Scott is hitting a blistering .550 (11-for-20) with two home runs, three doubles, six RBIs and five runs scored and has raised his average from .094 to .269.

"I expected to struggle when I started," said Scott, who was signed by the San Diego Padres to a minor-league contract on June 9. "I definitely expected to come here and basically need some time.

"It was like spring training for me; I was out for two and a half months and then I was coming into the season at midseason so I expected to have a battle at first."

Nobody -- Scott included -- expected him to get this hot this quickly.

"I guess I'm a little bit surprised at the last week because, obviously, I can't hit like this for a whole season. I've hit .500 the last week and I'm not going to do that for a season, but I'll ride it as long as I can.

"As long as I do the things that Jerry (Royster) and I talked about, then at least I'll put myself in a position to have good at-bats and that's what I try to do."

Scott, who is with his eighth different organization in 3 1/2 years, said he is grateful to Royster for his pushing the Padres to sign him.

"Jerry has confidence in me and he had a lot to do with me signing," Scott said. "I think a lot of teams were hesitant to sign me because I had been off for so long, but Jerry showed a lot of confidence in me and I would just like to give him something back to make it look good for him."

Scott would have liked to have helped give Royster a win Monday night, but the Sky Sox continued to pound Las Vegas pitching. After collecting 15 hits in Sunday's 10-8 loss to the Stars, Colorado Springs roughed up starter Glenn Dishman (4-6) for eight runs on nine hits in six innings and jumped out to an 8-3 lead.

The Stars closed to 8-6 with a three-run eighth inning, but Sky Sox stopper Garvin Alston retired five of the six batters he faced and notched his 11th save.

Stars pitching coach Galen Cisco said he didn't see Dishman's outing as a step backward in the progress the left-hander has made following a disastrous 0-3 start to the season.

"Most of the pitches he got hurt on tonight were up in the strike zone," Cisco said. "Up until the (four-run) sixth inning -- I thought he got a few pitches up but he made too many bad pitches up in the zone in that inning -- but otherwise I thought he was down a little bit better.

"Up until the sixth inning I thought he was pretty good and pretty much in command. But his pitch count was getting up there and I think he might have been getting a little bit tired out there."

Royster added that the Sky Sox lineup, which is hitting .294 in 14 games this season against the Stars, can have that kind of an effect -- even on a good pitcher.

"That's a pretty good hitting team right there and they can throw a pretty good lineup at you," Royster said. "You can't defense some of the things that they did.

"(Dishman) was real good in some innings and all of a sudden they sprung up and get four runs quickly. But it takes a lot of concentration to get through their lineup unscathed."

The Sky Sox pounded out five doubles and two home runs against Dishman, scoring four runs in both the fourth and sixth innings. The Stars countered with a run in the third, two in the fourth and three in the eighth -- including a mammoth solo home run by Rob Deer, his 19th, to lead off the eighth.