--INF Tony Abreu, who had been on the 15-day disabled list all season, will miss the rest of the season after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right hip. The procedure carries a recovery time of about four months. Club officials are hopeful Abreu will be healthy enough to play in time for the Dominican Winter League season.
--SS Rafael Furcal will see a specialist to determine the soundness of his lower back. Furcal is on the 15-day disabled list and didn't make this trip because of concern his back would tighten up on the long flights. But he has experienced rapid improvement in recent days and has an outside shot of returning when the Dodgers begin a seven-game homestand on Monday. --C Russell Martin went 3-for-5 and scored the Dodgers' only run. Martin is batting .471 (16-for-34) over his past nine road games. On the down side, he has now gone 25 consecutive games (101 plate appearances) since his last home run, which came on April 30.
--RHP Derek Lowe has gone seven consecutive starts without a win and has picked up a victory in just two of his 12 starts this season. In his past three starts, including two losses and Wednesday's no-decision, the Dodgers have scored a total of four runs. In his five losses this season, they have scored a total of eight runs.
--SS Chin-lung Hu went 0-for-4 and now is hitless in his past 15 at-bats. Hu likely is headed back to the minors when SS Rafael Furcal comes off the disabled list, but he stands a good chance of being the Dodgers' everyday shortstop or second baseman next season because both Furcal and Jeff Kent are free agents and Kent is likely to retire.
BY THE NUMBERS: 24 -- Consecutive at-bats with runners in scoring position in which the Dodgers failed to hit safely, a drought that finally came to an end with Russell Martin's two-out RBI single in the sixth inning May 25. The Dodgers went 3 1/2 games without a single hit with runners in scoring position. That included Friday night, when they lost to St. Louis 2-1 in a game in which they went hitless in nine at-bats with runners in scoring position.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "You're thinking about a lot of things. You're trying to get your family here and trying to deal with all those little outside things. But once I got here, I wasn't really as nervous as I expected to be. Every time I pitch, there are some jitters. But really, it was more or less the same as any other game." -- Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, after making his big-league debut with six solid innings on Sunday against St. Louis.
