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• Dee Gordon’s home run was the perfect tribute to Jose Fernandez
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• Dee Gordon on HR: Jose Fernandez should've been there cheering
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• Dee Gordon honors Jose Fernandez, then hits a home run in surreal scene at Marlins Park

"I was just trying to go back to my teammates as fast as possible, and I couldn't get there. I was just wondering why wasn't on the top of the steps cheering for me." Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in your country. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to your market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.

Sometimes sports write a story better than Hollywood ever could. That happened on Monday when Dee Gordon stepped to the plate for the Miami Marlins and hit his first home run of the season. Every Marlins player wore No. 16 on Monday, in honor of Fernandez. Marlins players also gathered around the mound and prayed just before the start of the game. Somehow, someway the Marlins managed to play a baseball game on Monday — after all Fernandez would have wanted it that way. And in doing so, they created a surreal moment right out of a storybook.

Dee Gordon’s home run was the perfect tribute to Jose Fernandez

Gordon was overcome with emotions as he stepped on home plate. "Pure emotion -- there's no other way it could be scripted," Stanton said of Gordon's homer. "There's no other way that, unless you're in a movie rewriting everything that just happened tonight, I couldn't believe it. I just put my hands up and celebrated." Gordon said hitting a home run -- his first of the season -- never crossed his mind. "It seemed like it took forever," Gordon said of rounding the bases.

While there’s a great chance that Dee Gordon’s home run on Monday will be the most emotional baseball moment any of us will ever witness, it’s not a great idea to power rank emotional moments. That’s doubly true when you’re in close proximity to one of them. Pitting Gordon’s home run against, say, Mike Piazza’s post-9/11 home run is like having a debate between food and water. The first pitch was eventually thrown, but the tributes and emotions didn’t stop there. When Gordon stepped to the plate to start the bottom of the first inning, he did so wearing a helmet with Fernandez’s number on it. The left-handed Gordon also stepped into the opposite batter’s box and took the first pitch right-handed in honor of Fernandez.

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It’s the difference between a demon actively stabbing you with a pitchfork and a demon sitting on your shoulder whispering things you don’t want to hear. The entire night was handled beautifully by the Marlins organization — organic, simple, gorgeous, raw. During the game, the Marlins and their home crowd reinforced each other, held each other up. After the game, the players went back to the mound because they had to, acutely aware of how the night got progressively lonelier and lonelier. Giancarlo Stanton of the Miami Marlins celebrates with Dee Gordon as Christian Yelich looks on after hitting a home run during the eighth inning... Giancarlo Stanton of the Miami Marlins leaps to celebrate with teammates including Dee Gordon, right, after he hit his 56th home run of the season in...

Led by Gordon's homer, Monday's performance was a fitting way for Marlins players to offer a tribute to their teammate who is gone way too soon. This might be the final time you see any Marlins player wear Fernandez's No. 16, especially if the boss -- owner Jeffrey Loria -- has his say. MIAMI – Dee Gordon, a lefty hitter, saw the first pitch of the bottom of the first inning as a right-handed hitter, which was his way of paying tribute to the late Jose Fernandez. Realmuto of the Miami Marlins is congratulated by teammates after hitting a walk off home run in the tenth inning against the New York Mets at... Giancarlo Stanton of the Miami Marlins celebrates with Dee Gordon after hitting his fifty-ninth home run of the season during the eighth inning of... Riddle of the Miami Marlins celebrates with Dee Gordon after hitting a walk-off 2-run home run to end the game against the New York Mets at Marlins...

Dee Gordon on HR: Jose Fernandez should've been there cheering

Think of it in contrast to the planned tribute, the gesture Gordon made at the beginning of the at-bat in honor of Fernandez. He put on a right-hander’s helmet and stepped in from the right side, taking a pitch as a way to physically acknowledge his friend. It was touching, but it was a tribute that existed because Gordon didn’t know what else he could do. He might have preferred to stop the game, lie on home plate, and just stare at the sky for an hour, but he knew he had to get up and play baseball eventually.

It’s not like if Gordon’s home run didn’t happen, we’d have to invent it. There wouldn’t have been that one moment where we remembered just how it felt. We weren’t going to revisit the calls or the texts or the news reports or the tweets or however we all found out. There wasn’t going to be a video of what was going on inside your head for the first five minutes, the first hour, the first day, something easy to rewind and replay again.

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The entire team wore No. 16 jerseys and gathered around the pitcher’s mound, many overcome with emotion. In honor of Fernandez, the Marlins pitcher who died in a boating accident early Sunday in Miami Beach, every Marlins player on Monday wore a jersey with his name and number, 16. The Marlins canceled their game that was scheduled for Sunday, against the Atlanta Braves, but they returned to Marlins Park on Monday to face the Mets in an emotional game.

In a tribute to his teammate, Gordon, a lefty batter, stepped to the plate batting right and wearing Fernandez’s batting helmet. After taking the first pitch, Gordon swapped the helmet for his own, and switched to the left-handed batters’ box. With a 2-0 count, Gordon homered to right field to give the Marlins the early 1-0 lead. It was a moment of unmistakeable power that guarantees we’ll remember just how this all felt at the time. We were going to remember it in some capacity, but not with this kind of focus and clarity. Gordon had an "RIP" shirt made in honor of Fernandez and wore it under his jersey, which was another way for Gordon to keep Fernandez close during the game.

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He not only loved to pitch, but he clearly enjoyed taking his hacks at the plate, too, and he was good at both. Miami’s motivation was clearly Fernandez, who died late Saturday night / early Sunday morning in a boating accident in which speed was a factor, according to authorities. Gordon, who weighs just 160 pounds and will never be confused with a power hitter, then switched to his normal left side and, on a 2-0 count, launched his first homer of the year. Dee Gordon made America cry on Monday night, and the moment will be there in 50 years when you want to cry again. Giancarlo Stanton of the Miami Marlins is congratulated by Dee Gordon after a two run home run in the first inning during a game against the San... Marcell Ozuna of the Miami Marlins is congratulated by Dee Gordon after hitting a home run in the first inning against the Philadelphia Phillies at...

But while the five stages of grief is probably oversimplified, most of us would agree that there is a progression. In about a month, we’ll be arguing about a bat flip in the World Series, or something equally as silly, as if any of it means a damned thing. We’ll return to our regularly scheduled lives, hard as ever, filled with frivolities and fun and genuine heartbreak, spoken fears piled under unspoken fears, maybe with a little hope mixed in. But we’ll get to return to all of that a lot sooner to the people who were close to Fernandez.

Sign up for the free Baseball Reference newsletter and get scores, news and notes in your inbox every day. As Gordon rounded the bases, Marlins teammates smacked the top railing, one of Fernandez’s signature celebrations. Gordon became extremely emotional as he pointed up to the sky. Marlins president David Samson said before the game that the entire locker room will struggle to "reset their equilibrium" after Fernandez's death.