UPDATE: The original post below has news on Billy Chamberlain, the homeless Giants fan who has resurfaced in Los Angeles. Give it a look.

In our daily pregame chat with manager Bruce Bochy, he acknowledged that third baseman Pablo Sandoval might need surgery after the season to repair his strained left shoulder, which continues to disable him against left-handed pitchers. He is not starting against Clayton Kershaw tonight.

“It’s tough, ” Bochy said. “I talked to Pablo to see where he was, but he can’t swing right-handed. I was hoping he’d be a go, but he can’t.”

Sandoval injured the shoulder taking a swing in Atlanta on Aug. 18 and it hasn’t healed, partly because the Giants can’t afford to let him rest it. The medical staff likely won’t make a decision on surgery until Sandoval does get a chance to let it heal on its own.

Meanwhile, the Giants will not have one of their two big middle-order hitters tonight, and possible tomorrow, when the Giants face lefty Dana Eveland.

ORIGINAL POST: I just talked to Billy Chamberlain, the homeless Giants fan who had been a fixture at AT&T Park until this summer. He is standing near the Sunset Boulevard entrance to Dodger Stadium. He said he’s fine and just chose to move back to Los Angeles, where he lived before.

Players, coaches and manager Bruce Bochy got to know Chamberlain, whom they last saw during a series in San Diego after the All-Star break. They often helped him with money and tickets to the game. An AT&T Park security guard even let Chamberlain live in his house.

After The Chronicle’s Gwen Knapp wrote about Chamberlain’s disappearance on Sept. 6, a missing person’s report was filed with the San Francisco Police Department, and the

Giants showed his picture on the scoreboard at home games asking for any information about his whereabouts.

Chamberlain just told me that he moved to Los Angeles in August because, “I just decided it was time. I was up there for three years, and now I’m down here.”

He has been living on the streets because he does not want to stay in a shelter.

“I’m fine,” he said. “I’m just broke right now.”

Chamberlain was wearing a World Series championship cap, a wool and leather jacket that Duane Kuiper gave him and a pair of camouflage pants that he bought because the pockets are big enough to hold a 2 liter bottle of soda.

Next to him was a handmade cardboard sign that read, “Homeless. Hungry. Can you help, please? God bless you.”

He said he knew people were looking for him, but when I told him about the missing person’s report, he said, “Really?”

He said he was in San Diego and told a guard at the Giants hotel to tell a Giants official that he was OK. I’m not sure Bochy and the players got word. I’ll ask.