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MIAMI -- When Jose Fernandez threw his final pitch of the night, he pulled up in pain, rubbed his right knee and limped to the dugout.He still looked better than his opponent.Fernandez pitched seven innings and shook off calf cramps to help the Miami Marlins beat the Kansas City Royals 3-0 and snap their nine-game winning streak Wednesday.Fernandez (13-7) grimaced after retiring Christian Colon with his ninth strikeout to end the seventh.I was cramping for the last five pitches, Fernandez said. I was sweating and changed my uniform twice. Sweating, sweating. The last pitch, when I finished I felt the cramp and I was, `Oooowwwww. I came in and took some Gatorade, and Im ready to go -- fantastic.The irrepressible Fernandez was laughing with teammates in the dugout in the ninth inning and joined in the postgame celebration on the field. When asked if the Marlins ace was indeed OK, manager Don Mattingly laughed.Did you see him after the game? Mattingly said.Fernandezs nine strikeouts increased his season total to 213, breaking the Marlins record of 209 set by Ryan Dempster in 2000. Fernandez allowed six hits and won for the first time since July 23 to snap his three-game losing streak, a career worst.From the last five or six starts, today was a little improvement, he said.Fernandez also had the Marlins first two hits, hiking his average to .286, and improved to 27-2 at Marlins Park.Christian Yelich broke a scoreless tie in the sixth with a two-run single.The Royals went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position against Fernandez. They loaded the bases in the second, but Fernandez escaped by retiring Paulo Orlando and Colon. Their first two batters singled in the sixth, but Alex Gordon struck out and Alcides Escobar bounced into a double play.Orlando struck out in all four at-bats against Fernandez.He was just tough, Royals manager Ned Yost said. He had a really, really good slider and went to it when he got in trouble.Fernando Rodney pitched around two singles and a walk in the ninth for his 25th save and eighth with Miami. He was helped by a spectacular leaping catch by shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria to rob Escobar.That changed the game, Escobar said. I hit that ball really good. When I saw it, I said, `Oh! Thats a great play.Dillon Gee (5-7) allowed only two of the first 18 batters to reach -- and both times it was Fernandez. He had an infield single in the third and another single in the sixth, when Gee proceeded to unravel.The Marlins collected four consecutive singles, the last of them Yelichs hit to chase Gee. Marcell Ozuna followed with a sacrifice fly.I wasnt overpowering by any means, Gee said, but I felt like I threw the ball fairly well.The Royals bullpen extended its franchise-record scoreless streak to 34 2/3 innings.TRAINERS ROOMMarlins: LHP Wei-Yin Chen (sprained elbow) threw a bullpen session for the first time since being sidelined July 20, and hes on schedule to return in mid-September. ... Ozuna was back in the lineup after leaving Tuesdays game to be with his pregnant wife, who became ill and was briefly taken to the hospital. She and the baby were doing fine Wednesday, Ozuna said.Royals: LHP Mike Minor, who has not pitched in the majors since 2014 after suffering a torn labrum in 2015, is being shut down for the year after struggling in several rehab starts.UP NEXTRHP Edinson Volquez (9-10, 5.04) is scheduled to face Marlins RHP Tom Koehler (9-8, 3.82) in the series finale. Volquez is 6-0 in seven career starts against Miami. 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In what the team had called a retirement, Ryan said Thursday that he is resigning as chief executive of the Rangers in a move effective at the end of this month. Turner Broadcasting and WME|IMGs joint venture ELeague announced a partnership with tournament organizer FACEIT July 22 to host a $300,000 Overwatch Open. Open qualifiers on FACEITs online matchmaking platform begin July 23, with teams fighting for a chance to be one of the last eight standing in North America and Europe heading into the regional finals.The regional finals of the tournament will be held on September 25-29 in the ELeague studios at Turner Broadcastings home base in Atlanta, Georgia, and will be broadcasted live on streaming platform Twitch. The grand final of the tournament, which will take place on September 30, will be televised live on TBS, with the winner taking home $100,000 and the runner-up taking home $32,000.This opportunity to feature Blizzards popular Overwatch further expands our esports offerings and aligns ELeague with a game that is widely embraced by the community, Turner Sports Chief Content Officer and EVP Craig Barry said in a news release. We look forward to bringing the same level of production and storytelling capabilities weve demonstrated throughhout the first season of ELeague to this championship event.ddddddddddddThe announcement comes as ELeagues first season heads into its final week. For the past three months, ELeague has hosted the first televised CS:GO league in its studios in Atlanta. Its shows have averaged 261,625 viewers on TBS every Friday night, according to numbers released by SportsTVRatings.com.The move to broadcast Overwatch should come as no surprise as Overwatch had seen massive interest even before its release in May. On June 14, the games developer, Blizzard, announced that it had reached more than 10 million players across the globe. In South Korea, the game recently overtook the massively popular online game League of Legends as the game of choice in the countrys ubiquitous internet cafes, with 35 percent of customers choosing to play Overwatch. This will be FACEITs first time hosting Overwatch, and it will be the first of its competitors, including ESEA and CEVO, to do so. ' ' '