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Smith putting up numbers in El Paso

Padres center field prospect Travis Jankowski opened the 2015 season at Double-A San Antonio. / Dave Michael

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Padres center field prospect Travis Jankowski opened the 2015 season at Double-A San Antonio. — Dave Michael

Chris Smith has been around the baseball block.

A fourth-round pick out of UC Riverside in 2002, he has pitched in more than 300 minor-league games as well as 50 games with Boston and Milwaukee.

Never in a 14-year career had the right-hander accomplished what he did last week.