MIAMI — Giancarlo Stanton would say it later, say what was on the minds of every Marlins player and every Mets player and all 26,933 people inside Marlins Park and throughout the surrounding community of Little Havana, where Jose Fernandez, one of them, had become an idol, an icon, an ideal.
“We’re waiting for all of this to be a reality show,” Stanton said, “and for him to come and say, ‘I got you all!’ ”
Short of that, this will have to do.
Short of being able to explain the inexplicable, of finding sense in the senseless death of a star athlete at the age of 24, we were all forced to trust in sports and believe in the humanity of the men who play them for a living.