Dodgers Notebook: Padres' Silva Long Way From Outback

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SAN DIEGO - The Dodgers aren't going into tonight's game with the San Diego Padres completely blind. But they aren't exactly going in with 20/20 vision, either.

Right-hander Walter Silva, a 32-year-old rookie who until now has never pitched professionally in the United States, is scheduled to take the hill for the Padres, the culmination of an improbable - and improbably quick - rise to the major leagues that could turn out to be an experiment that didn't work or the feel-good story of the season.

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Dodgers Notebook: Padres' Silva Long Way From Outback

Silva used to live in Palm Desert and pitched for a semipro team in Baldwin Park, the Sultanas, on Sundays. Duri...

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