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Brocail has heart surgery

PEORIA, Ariz. -- Padres relief pitcher Doug Brocail, 38, submitted to heart surgery on Saturday morning in nearby Sun City for what a doctor described as "a 99 percent blockage of the left anterior descending coronary artery," the main artery pumping blood through the heart.

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