Fernandez has dominated at home throughout his career, highlighted by an 11-2 mark and 1.77 ERA this season.
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Wei-Yin Chen of the Marlins was sharp through four innings in his first game since July 20. “You start looking at the matchups and their numbers on him”.
Fernandez (16-8) allowed three hits without a walk to outduel Washington’s Tanner Roark (15-9) who pitched seven innings and allowed one run. But he is better still at home, going 28-2 with a 1.53 ERA at Marlins Park since breaking into the majors. “I wish we could have got him a win”.
Tom Koehler started for the Marlins and allowed four runs in four innings.
Barry Bonds was very impressed with Fernandez’s performance.
“I love you!” Bonds shouted as Fernandez grinned.
TIGERS 8, TWINS 1 (at Minneapolis) – Matt Boyd breezed through eight innings, backed by home runs from James McCann and Miguel Cabrera as Detroit beat Minnesota to step forward in the AL wild card race. “When they get a lead, they know how to put the game away”. “I just didn’t get it down enough”.
“There is still room for him (to grow as a hitter)”, Marlins manager Don Mattingly said.
“I saw a situation and at this point every game is huge for us”, Bour said. Washington was held to four hits wit Stephen Drew going 2-4. The Fish mustered three hits and a trio of base on balls with Giancarlo Stanton clubbing his 27th long ball. It’s tough to stay with him and stuff but he’s right there, right around the corner.
Every fifth day, so long as those two are healthy, you have to be ideal to beat us.
It was Turner’s 12th home run in 63 games, the sixth most by a Nationals rookie. Stanton also homered in Monday’s 4-3 win. “It wasn’t like a hard drive or anything”. The exit velocity was 102 miles per hour, while the ball traveled 402 feet from home plate as projected by Statcast™.
Wilson Ramos broke through in the top of the eighth with a soft liner to centre and Brian Goodwin followed with a single to right.
NOTES: Nationals 2B Daniel Murphy (sore left leg) sat out his fourth straight start, although he has been used as a pinch hitter during this stretch.
“He was good, he was feeling it”, Stanton said.
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“He’s the epitome of the shutdown inning”, Baker said.
“I tried to throw a (Zimmerman) a curve ball there”, Koehler said. “Whatever it takes to get the job done and I had an opportunity to bunt”. I know they got some quotes from me, but I was talking about the past. “He could have had some more wins but I think that’s why when you hear guys talk about the analytics, a win is not that important. Nobody knows where it came from because he’s not on the injury report and we treated that already in the past.”.
The Marlins have one of the better young outfields in baseball with Giancarlo Stanton, Christian Yelich and Marcell Ozuna.
Marlins: RHP Bryan Morris (lumbar disc herniation) was reinstated from the 60-day DL and was designated for assignment. On the season, Scherzer has gone 17-7 in 31 starts with a 0.83 WHIP and 2.76 ERA.
While Roark has sputtered versus Miami, Fernandez has won all three of his starts against Washington this season to improve to 6-0 with a 1.13 ERA in nine career encounters.
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Marlins: RHP Tom Koehler (9-11, 3.96) takes the mound looking for his first win since August 9 against San Francisco.
