This day in sports history: Marlins’ Dee Gordon homers for Jose Fernandez, Roger Maris ties Babe Ruth

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Miami Marlins second baseman Dee Gordon rounded the bases at Marlins Park on the night of Sept. 26, 2016, somber and teary-eyed. It was his first home run of the season, but his focus wasn’t on that.

He was thinking about Jose Fernandez.

Miami Marlins' Dee Gordon, center, gets consoled by Derek Dietrich, left, after hitting a home run during the first inning against the New York Mets on Sept. 26, 2016, at Marlins Park. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Fernandez, 24, was supposed to take the mound that Monday night. Instead, the entire organization mourned his untimely death. Just a day earlier, Fernandez and two other men were tragically killed when his 32-foot boat slammed into a rock jetty in Miami Beach.

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"There has been a lot of talking and a lot of crying and a lot of praying and a lot of trying to make sense of something you can’t make sense of. There is no sense to a life ended like that in a way that is so meaningless," then-Marlins president David Samson said at the time.

"It’s our job to make his life matter, so we’re going to do that forever, and forever starts today."

Dee Gordon, Marcell Ozuna, Martin Prado and Miguel Rojas of the Miami Marlins gather around the pitching mound after the game against the New York Mets at Marlins Park on September 28, 2016. (Rob Foldy/Getty Images)

Gordon did just that in a game against the New York Mets when, in the bottom of the first inning, he hit a home run to right field off a pitch from Bartolo Colon.

"It seemed like it took forever," Gordon said of rounding the