Officials later said they were taken to the medical examiner’s office.
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Because the boat was on a jetty, the Coast Guard notified Miami-Dade police, which turned the investigation over to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Neither of the three victims were wearing life-vests. “We were just talking about the off-season and, ironically enough, going fishing and stuff like that”.
Fernandez went on to win the National League Rookie of the Year Award and finished third in Cy Young Award balloting in 2013. The native of Santa Clara, Cuba became a US citizen past year and was enormously popular in Miami. Each player had made numerous attempts to defect from Cuba before succeeding in harrowing fashion, Fernandez in 2008 and Puig in 2012. Fernandez and his mother would eventually reach Tampa, Florida, where he had the opportunity to blossom into the eventual 14th pick of the 2011 draft.
Shortly after the announcement of today’s game’s cancellation, the Marlins released that they plan to play tomorrow’s game.
Tomorrow’s New York Mets game against the Marlins will still carry value towards the playoff push. During the interview the All-Star pitcher explained that his grandmother was the inspiration for his baseball career: “My mom doesn’t know as much about baseball as my grandma”. Because I know that’s how Jose would want to do it. “I feel as if I had lost a son”. He was originally scheduled to take the mound Sunday but had the start pushed back until Monday.
In 2013 – his first year in Major League Baseball – he was voted to be an All Star and was picked as one of the top ten pitchers.
“A lot of words were said, meaningful words and emotion and prayer”, Marlins president David Samson said.
“But we’ll get through it, because we have to”, he said.
“I’ve never met anyone who extracted more joy, more passion out of what he did than Jose Fernandez”, baseball analyst Buster Olney said on ESPN. I heard the news this morning and was sure I wasn’t seeing correctly.
Two of Fernandez’s compatriots, who also fled that country to become baseball stars, paid a special tribute to Fernandez on Sunday during their respective teams’ games.
“I’m still in shock”, former Marlins player Gaby Sanchez said on Twitter.
The owner of the Miami Marlins says he is feeling the “deepest sorrow” over the death of Jose Fernandez. Please see our terms of service for more information. A few fans milled about, even though the game was canceled.
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Earlier in the week, Fernandez appeared to announce his girlfriend’s pregnancy via Instagram with a post of an unidentified woman cradling her baby bump. To think just a couple weeks ago we were having dinner and spending time together in Miami.
