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- Updated: May 26, 2016
ST. PETERSBURG — Jose Fernandez blew a kiss toward the crowd cheering him behind the Marlins’ dugout. Miami’s right-hander left the field after the seventh inning on Thursday like a star actor awash in applause following a pleasing final act, this moment serving as a time when his teenage dream met adult reality.
Fernandez watched his first Major League game at Tropicana Field when he was a sophomore at Braulio Alonso High in Tampa, shortly after he arrived in the United States from his native Cuba to chase a better life. Now, here he was enjoying the fruits of his dominance in a 9-1 victory over the Rays, fresh off capping a one-run, six-hit and 12-strikeout clinic on quality pitching.
“This is a place that has a really special place in my heart,” Fernandez said. “There’s just something about pitching here. It’s really special.”
Before Thursday, Tropicana Field had been a site of struggle for Fernandez. He was 0-2 with a 5.79 ERA in two appearances against the Rays at the ballpark in 2013 and …
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