The Dodgers have placed Matt Kemp on the disabled list with a strained right hamstring.

The club is hoping that the strain in mild, but Kemp missed 51 games with a left hamstring injury last season.

"I don't want to be in the same situation where I come back, hurt it again and sit out another month," Kemp said. "That's just not what I want to happen this year, so just kind of get it better now and, you know, be better."