Walker gets win with heavy heart for Fernandez

MINNEAPOLIS — Like the rest of Major League Baseball, Taijuan Walker competed with a heavy heart on Sunday, battling through a 4-3 win over the Twins just hours after learning that Marlins ace Jose Fernandez had died in a boating accident in Miami.

“It was just one of those games,” Walker said. “There were a lot of emotions just from everything that happened this morning. I had kind of a hard time getting going. Everything just felt a little off.”

Walker had only communicated with Fernandez before on Twitter, but the two were the same age at 24 and he’d looked up to the youngster from Cuba as one of the game’s rising stars.

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