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Vintage Jose back in consecutive strong starts
- Updated: May 15, 2016
WASHINGTON — For the second consecutive start, Marlins ace Jose Fernandez was nearly untouchable. Fernandez struck out 11 Nationals hitters in Sunday’s 5-1 win.
Fernandez matched his total from last Monday’s outing against the Brewers, while allowing only four hits and one run in seven innings. He walked three. Marlins manager Don Mattingly called it Fernandez’s best start of the season.
“To me, this was the easiest and smoothest,” Mattingly said. “No real true troubles.”
Only once did Fernandez let two runners reach base in the same inning, when he walked two batters in the fifth before inducing Bryce Harper into a lineout to end the threat.
Fernandez, who entered the day leading the Major Leagues in strikeout rate and strikeouts per nine innings, seemed to get stronger as the afternoon wore on. He struck out the side in both the sixth and seventh innings, even as his pitch count climbed north of …
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