How David Hernandez rebuilt himself as a pitcher, and as a person

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GOODYEAR, Ariz. – David Hernandez hit bottom on July 24 of 2013.

It had been a bad year. Previously a dangerous eighth-inning man for the Arizona Diamondbacks, his ERA was sitting a good two runs higher than the year before. That night against the Chicago Cubs, he gave up the deciding run in a 12-inning loss.

Still, that didn’t seem to explain the scene that FOX Sports Arizona cameras caught in the dugout in the closing moments of the game. Hernandez sat in tears, the arm of fellow reliever J.J. Putz draped sympathetically over his…