Grieving Cespedes cranks mammoth HR off Marlins Park sculpture

Two days after the tragic death of Jose Fernandez, it was another Cuban star, Yoenis Cespedes, who dazzled the somber crowd at Marlins Park, or "his field," as Cespedes put it Monday.

Cespedes, who hung up a Fernandez jersey in the New York Mets' dugout Monday, saluted his late countryman with a positively mammoth home run Tuesday in Miami, a 432-foot drive off Tom Koehler that clanked off the famous sculpture beyond the wall in left-center field.

"I didn't know him very well personally - just really my time spent with him on the field," Cespedes told reporters of Fernandez. "But he was a very charismatic person, and I think we can all agree that he had so much fun out there on the mound. That's probably my best memory of him.

"We want to let him know that we're still thinking of him, knowing that it's his town, and we're on his field."

Cespedes, who was Fernandez's teammate in the 2016 All-Star Game, now has 31 homers through 129 games this season.