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Silva leaves with abnormal heart rate

Published Aug. 2, 2010 12:37 a.m. ET

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Right-hander Carlos Silva left the Chicago Cubs' game against the Colorado Rockies on Sunday in the first inning with an abnormal heart rate.

The Cubs said he will remain in a Denver hospital overnight for observation.

''It caught a lot of us off guard,'' acting manager Alan Trammell said. ''We didn't know of any history of that for him.''

A Cubs trainer went to the mound after Silva walked the second batter he faced, Jonathan Herrera. Silva stayed in and allowed a single to Carlos Gonzalez and a ground-rule RBI double to Troy Tulowitzki.

Trammell and the trainer went back to the mound, and Silva was replaced by left-hander James Russell.

''Whether it is at the altitude, I don't know,'' Trammell said. ''We saw something after Herrera's at-bat when he backed off the mound. We thought something was wrong.''

Silva recorded one out in his shortest outing of the season, yielding two runs and two hits.

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