Phils Show Glimpse Of Things To Come An Intrasquad Game Provided The First Chance For Competition. Curt Schilling Got Clobbered.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — The big moment finally arrived. For the first time since last August, major-league players wearing Phillies uniforms gathered on the same field yesterday to play something resembling a real baseball game.

OK, so it was only an intrasquad game, and the first half inning was played with Glenn Brummer, a Phillies minor-league instructor, calling balls and strikes. But this was no time to quibble.

Not with Lenny Dykstra leading off and playing center field again, and Gregg Jefferies making his debut in left for Mike Ryan's 7-3 victors. Not with Curt Schilling on the mound, Darren Daulton behind the plate, Dave Hollins taking over for the departed John Kruk at first, and Charlie Hayes, in his second coming as a Phillie, playing third for Denis Menke's team.

For Schilling, hoping to rebound from last year's 2-8 disaster, it was a chance to face big-league hitters for the first time since he beat the Mets, 5-1, last Aug. 9, two nights before the season came screeching to a halt. The big righthander, throwing mostly fastballs, got clobbered in a five-run second that featured back-to-back homers by first baseman Gene Schall and shortstop Tony Manahan. But just being out there was what mattered.

"It's been a long time," he said. "You can't simulate that stuff, you know. Work all you want, throw all you want, but until you get on the mound with those hitters, you're missing that adrenalin."

Those hitters weren't missing Schilling's fastball, which kept sailing over or against the fences at sun-drenched Jack Russell Stadium.

"I wasn't out there just to throw batting practice," Schilling said. "I was trying to work the ball in and out a little bit. But you're talking (about being away) eight months. It might be a little easier for some guys than others. I just want to get out there and feel my way around the mound again."

All in all, manager Jim Fregosi said, he was pleased with what he saw - especially Schall's hitting and the pitching of lefthander David West, who breezed through two perfect innings for Ryan's winners.

Schall, the La Salle High School graduate and former Villanova star, smacked a two-strike Schilling pitch far over the fence in left-center with two on to open the scoring, and he added two singles later.

With Hollins in front of him, the road to the Vet seems blocked for Schall, but Fregosi went out of his way to praise the strong, righthanded slugger who drove in 89 runs for triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in '94.