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Dodgers place LHP Perez on DL, recall RHP Jackson

MIAMI -- Injury again has forced lefthander Odalis
Perez from the Los Angeles Dodgers' rotation.

On Monday, the Dodgers placed Perez on the 15-day disabled list,
retroactive to last Thursday, with a strained right oblique
muscle and recalled righthander Edwin Jackson from Class AA
Jacksonville of the Southern League.

Jackson made his first start of the season on Monday afternoon
and allowed three runs and five hits in 4 2/3 innings of a 5-2
loss to the Florida Marlins.

This is the second DL stint of the season for Perez, who missed
more than seven weeks with soreness in his pitching shoulder
before being activated in early July.

The 28-year-old Perez, who allowed six runs and 11 hits in
four-plus innings against the Atlanta Braves last Wednesday, is
7-7 with a 4.73 ERA in 17 starts this season.

In 162 career games, including 143 starts, with the Braves and
Dodgers, Perez has gone 52-50 with a 4.08 ERA. His best season
was his first for Los Angeles in 2002, when he went 15-10 with a
3.00 ERA in 32 starts. He has gone 26-25 since.

The 21-year-old Jackson went 6-4 with a 3.39 ERA in 10 starts
with Jacksonville. He began the season with Class AAA Las Vegas
of the Pacific Coast League, going 3-7 with an 8.62 ERA.

Last year, Jackson started five of his eight appearances with
the Dodgers, going 2-1 with a 7.30 ERA. He was 2-1 with a 2.45
ERA with the club in 2003.

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