Dodgers manager Joe Torre again delayed announcing his Opening Day starting pitcher Saturday afternoon, this time saying it would come sometime after Tuesday’s day off.

The Dodgers apparently are focused on narrowing down their large list of fifth starters and might need to juggle their current rotation order of starters — Clayton Kershaw, Chad Billingsley, Hiroki Kuroda and Vicente Padilla — to get the fifth-starter candidates enough innings for management to cut down the list. — Ken Gurnick