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CINCINNATI -- After skipping his previous turn in the rotation, Miami Marlins right-hander Jose Fernandez continues his pursuit of the National League strikeout crown Thursday night when he faces the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park. Demarcus Walker Jersey .Fernandez (12-6, 2.81 ERA) has 198 Ks in 137 1/3 innings, second in the league behind Washington Nationals right-hander Max Scherzer, who has 211 strikeouts.However, Miami manager Don Mattingly wants his hard-throwing 24-year old to learn how to put batters away earlier in the count, thus limiting his pitches and extending outings.We dont talk a lot about his strikeouts, Mattingly said. We talk about him learning to pitch more. Keep himself in games. Keep his pitch count down. Pitch to contact. Part of that is to get early outs.Mattingly referenced Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, whom he managed in Los Angeles. While Kershaws strikeout totals were high, so were his innings totals.Theres a way to do it, Mattingly said. It cant be 3-2 strikeouts. You cant be missing 1-2, missing 3-2, then you get a strikeout. Thats putting an extra one to two pitches on every batter.Fernandez will be facing Cincinnati for the fifth time in his career. He is 2-1 with a 2.52 ERA and 26 strikeouts in 25 innings vs. the Reds.The Marlins skipped his last start in an effort to limit his innings. Ideally, Fernandez will be kept around the 180-inning mark.Fernandezs fastball is common knowledge. However, his breaking ball is something hitters still are adjusting to, according to Mattingly.Joses got a knack for knowing how to use his breaking ball, the manager said. Hes got a great breaking ball. He throws in the upper 90s, so you have to get going. That puts you in danger against anything that breaks late and breaks big. Hes added the (changeup), which works well with his fastball.Cincinnati is batting .269 since the All-Star break, led by first baseman Joey Vottos torrid .451 clip.The Reds will send one of their more dependable starters to the mound on Thursday, right-hander Dan Straily (8-6, 3.75 ERA).Straily will be making his 26th appearance of the season and 23rd start. Opponents are hitting just .215 against him, the ninth-best mark in the NL. He hasnt walked a batter in his last 16 2/3 innings and hasnt issued a free pass to a right-hander hitter since July 22.Straily has produced quality starts in seven of his past eight starts.Cincinnati (50-69) hopes to have all hands on deck against Fernandez on Thursday after a series of minor injuries caused regulars to miss games during the four-game series against Miami.Center fielder Billy Hamilton missed two starts since leaving Mondays game after a pair of collisions with the outfield wall.Left fielder Adam Duvall fouled a pitch off his left foot on Monday and was in a boot on Wednesday. It is doubtful Duvall will be back in time for the Thursday game.There is no fracture, manager Bryan Price said of Duvall. He was hit on one of those spots that you dont want to be hit. We decided immobilizing it was the way to go. We think hell be out a couple days.Second baseman Brandon Phillips had a knee contusion but returned to the Reds lineup on Wednesday in a big way with a pair of doubles, one of which drove in the tying and go-ahead runs, and two sensational defensive plays in a 6-3 Cincinnati win.Miami (62-58) is looking to keep pace in the NL wild-card race. After dropping two of the first three against the Reds, the Marlins are two games behind the St. Louis Cardinals and one game back of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the chase for the second wild card. Emmanuel Sanders Jersey . -- Claudio Bieler hadnt scored since early September, and not from the run of play since mid-July. Brandon McManus Jersey . Then the Pacers gave Oladipo and his Orlando teammates the cold shoulder. Paul Georges buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter spurred a 21-4 run, finally sending Indiana past the Magic 97-87 in a tougher-than-expected opening night matchup. www.authenticnflshopbroncos.com/authentic-virgil-green-jersey.html . -- Devin Hester is done returning kicks in Chicago.India reduced England to 103-5 in response to their first-innings 455 to take control of the second Test on day two in Visakhapatnam. Joe Root (53) hit fifty, but holed out long-off to a Ravichandran Ashwin delivery; a superfluous shot and a wicket symptomatic of an erratic final session from the visitors where they lost four wickets for 29 runs in a 15-over spell. Alastair Cooks off-stump is broken in two by a jubilant Mohammad Shami on day two in Visakhapatnam After Alastair Cook was dismissed before tea - his stumps broken by Mohammed Shami - Hasseb Hameed (13) was needlessly run-out, Ben Ducketts flaws against off-spin were again exposed, and Moeen Ali fell lbw on review.England had earlier done well to dismiss their hosts for 455, with Virat Kohli (167) adding only 16 runs to his overnight score.Moeen impressed with three wickets, including that of Kohli - Ben Stokes taking the catch at slip after putting down Ashwin on 17, a ball earlier.Ashwin (58) kicked on through to an eighth Test fifty, and then took 2-20 with the ball as England struggled through to stumps on a pitch that is now starting to crack up.India, resuming the day on 317-4, breezed through the first hours play unscathed, with England unable to find the same swing with the second new ball that was there the previous evening.Eventually, England turned to spin, and Moeen (3-98) made immediate inroads, with the wicket of Kohli in his second over, and the strikes of Wriddhiman Saha (3) and Ravindra Jadeja (0) lbw in his fourth, although Jadeja would have survived had he opted to review. Ben Stokes drops Ravichandran Ashwin on 17, who went on tto score fifty for India Ashwin and Jayant Yadav (35), on debut, rallied the innings with their 64-run stand for the eighth wicket either side of lunch, though soon after Ashwin reached his half-century, Stokes (1-73) atoned for his earlier error at slip and picked him up caught behind. Custom Denver Broncos Jerseys. dil Rashid (2-110) then took two well-deserved wickets to end the innings, with Jayant Yadav top-edging an attempted slog-sweep, and Umesh Yadav (13) picking out the man at deep midwicket.Cook fell in the third over of Englands reply, bowled by a beauty from Shami (1-15) that split his off-stump in half, though Hameed and Root dug in and stuck it out till tea. Watch the best of the action from Day Two of the Second Test in Visakhapatnam But Hameeds run out - courtesy of some terrific work in the deep from Jayant Yadav and a fantastic flick onto the stumps from Saha - early in the final session, signalled a big momentum shift in the match.A jubilant Indian outfit made further inroads on a pitch that seems now to be offering considerable turn for the spinners, and variable bounce for the seamers.Duckett (5) again showed too much off his stumps to the off-spin of Ashwin and was beaten, bowled, while Roots dismissal would have been the most disappointing - a miscued drive over the top picking out the man at long-off. Ravichandran Ashwin celebrates the wicket of Ben Duckett, one of two he picked up in the evening session on day two Jayant Yadav (1-11) then picked up a wicket with just his eighth delivery in Test cricket, Moeen falling lbw on review after initially being given not out by the umpire.Stokes (12no) and Jonny Bairstow (12no) safely negotiated the final 14.4 overs in the day, though India were convinced they had the former out caught behind off Jadeja, and wasted a review, with replays showing there was no edge.Live coverage of the second Test between India and England from Visakhapatnam continues with day three, on Sky Sports 2 from 3.45am on Saturday. China Jerseys Cheap Wholesale Jerseys 2018 Stitched Jerseys China Jerseys Stitched Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Online Cheap Jerseys From China ' ' '