Dodgers put Rafael Furcal, Jon Garland on the disabled list

Reporting from Cincinnati

Dodgers shortstop Rafael Furcal said he wanted to cry. But as frustrated as he was about landing on the disabled list for the second time this season, Furcal refused to say the “R” word Saturday.

You know, “retire.”

Furcal said he learned his lesson in April, when he mentioned the possibility after breaking his thumb.

“I don’t want to say it again because they’ll make a big deal of it in the Dominican,” Furcal said.

He smiled and shook his head.

Earlier in the day, Furcal and Jon Garland were put on the disabled list, Furcal because of a left side muscle strain and Garland because of shoulder inflammation. Furcal and Garland became the ninth and 10th players on the Dodgers’ current disabled list.

Their places on the active roster were taken by infielder Ivan De Jesus Jr. and right-hander John Ely, who were called up from triple-A Albuquerque.

Furcal returned to Los Angeles with Vicente Padilla, who experienced a sudden recurrence of the neck pain that sidelined him for the final month of last season.

Furcal said he was unsure of when he would return.

“Maybe 15 days, maybe a month,” he said.

He said he was injured when turning to make a throw to third base the previous night.

“It’s bad, man,” he said. “Painful.”

Painful enough, he said, that he had to sleep on his right side.

Furcal was eight for 19 in his last five games.

“I was getting back on track,” he said.

Furcal is in the final year of a three-year, $30-million contract, which includes a $12-million club option for next season.

Said Furcal about the Dodgers’ health problems: “I’ve never seen that. We never play together.”

The L.A. Isotopes?

If the Dodgers look like a triple-A team these days, well, that’s because they have several triple-A players on their roster.

Nine of the 25 players on the active roster played for double-A Chattanooga or for Albuquerque this season, and that doesn’t include the major league players who visited one of the minor league affiliates on a rehabilitation assignment.

Of the Dodgers’ injury woes, Manager Don Mattingly said, “I don’t think it’s God not liking me. We can rule that one out.”

Make-up game is set

The Dodgers’ game May 12 in Pittsburgh that was rained out will be made up Sept. 1 at PNC Park.

The Dodgers were originally scheduled to be off Sept. 1 after playing the San Diego Padres on Aug. 30.

The visit to Pittsburgh will precede a three-game series in Atlanta that starts Sept. 2. The Dodgers will then make stops in Washington and San Francisco.

dylan.hernandez@latimes.com