With heavy hearts, Miami players, staffffffffffff, fans, and the opponents from New York return to the where Jose Fernandez was his strongest.

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MIAMI — The boy, only 6, turned to his father as he prepared to write a personal message to Jose Fernandez on the makeshift Wall of Remembrance outside Marlins Park.

“How do you spell love?” he asked.

You spell it the way the Miami Marlins did Monday night.

You spell it in ways large and small, such as the No. 16 every Marlins player wore — and which no Marlins player will ever wear again.

Yo u s p e l l i t w i t h a moment o f s i l e nc e a nd hugs shared by each Marlins player with each Mets player. With a fairytale leadoffff home run by the Marlins’ Dee Gordon, who was overcome with emotion.

You spell it with a pregame team gathering at the mound Jose Fernandez commanded with fifire and joy. And you spell it with your index fifinger, as each Marlins player did, inscribing their personal messages to Jose in that mound.

“Rest with God,” one player wrote.

A day earlier, they were jolted awake with news that Fernandez, their year- Jose Fernandez was owner of boat that crashed, according to FWC offifficials.

Stories and photos of Jose Fernandez at old spark plug, had been killed with two friends in a boating accident offff Miami Beach.

A night earlier, instead of playing a game, the entire team was bused to the Fernandez family home for an excruciating 45 minutes, trying to fifind comforting words for a family but knowing no such words exist.

How do you play a game a day after that?

One way is the way the Marlins did, blowing out the New York Mets by taking a 5-0 lead in the first two innings of a 7-3 victory.

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PHOTOS BY ALLEN EYESTONE / THE PALM BEACH POST Miami left-hander Adam Conley, who started in place of Jose Fernandez, takes a moment to collect his thoughts before throwing the fifirst pitch in Monday night’s game. All the Marlins wore Fernandez’s jersey number, which will be retired by the team.

Marlins second baseman Dee Gordon (center) wept openly after he led offff the bottom of the fifirst with his fifirst homer of 2016. He was consoled by second baseman Derek Dietrich (left) and coach Lorenzo Bundy (right).