‘No Problems’ for Beltre During Surgery

Third baseman Adrian Beltre underwent surgery Monday in Los Angeles to have a wound on his large intestine closed.

Surgeon Robert Shorr, who performed the 80-minute procedure at Centinela Hospital Medical Center, said Beltre experienced no “problems or complications” during his second abdominal surgery in two months.

But Shorr, who said Beltre would be hospitalized at least a week, would not speculate on when the third baseman might return to the team.

Shorr said the hole in Beltre’s colon was “just about an inch in diameter.”

Team medical personnel said that the opening, considered large, formed as the result of an infection after Beltre had an emergency appendectomy Jan. 12 in the Dominican Republic.

In a recent interview, Dodger physician Michael Mellman said Beltre would “not be available for opening day, that’s a certainty,” and some in the organization believe Beltre might be sidelined at least another month after leaving the hospital.