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- Updated: August 19, 2016
CINCINNATI — Skipping a start certainly caused Jose Fernandez to be fresh on Thursday night, and that was clear against the first batter the 24-year-old faced. On his fifth pitch of the game, Fernandez hummed a fastball that Pitch/Fx clocked at 99.4 mph.
The result, however, typified the frustrating night, as Billy Hamilton singled sharply. It was that kind of game for Fernandez and the Marlins, who fell, 5-4, to the Reds in the series finale at Great American Ball Park.
“He had velocity, for sure,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. “They were, obviously, squaring a lot of stuff up, it seemed like. Even the outs.”
Fernandez also was pounding the zone, throwing a lot of strikes, but his fastball command was off, and the Reds did some early damage, scoring five runs — three coming on Ramon Cabrera’s home run in the second inning.
“We took advantage of some of the early strikes he threw in the count and didn’t get deep in the count because he has the paralyzing slider,” Reds manager Bryan Price said. “But you know what? He’s throws 100 [mph], too. …
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