Madison Bumgarner
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3.1K9What we won’t see from the Giants this month
The seven-game losing streak was snapped last night, and Buster Posey’s month-long homerless streak ended today in the Giants’ 7-4 win at Coors to leave Denver with a series split against the lowly Rockies. However, the standings paint a not-so-pretty picture for the Giants. The Dodgers won their third straight today, keeping them 7.5 games […]
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9.4K6Madison Bumgarner’s insanely good August
Madison Bumgarner capped a month for the ages in yesterday’s 9-1 win over the Cubs. His pitching numbers were absurd He pleased the traditionalists — Bumgarner went 5-0 in his five starts with a 1.43 ERA and 0.72 WHIP. He pleased the sabermetricians — Bumgarner had a 0.70 FIP, 1.59 xFIP and .284 BABIP (in other […]
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2.6K2Two kinds of clutch: Bumgarner and Belt lead Giants to 3-1 win over Astros
Madison Bumgarner doesn’t HAVE to win every one of his starts the rest of the way, but it seemed necessary after the Giants ran into a brick wall covered in ivy over the weekend. Bumgarner has had plenty of good outings — including his previous one, in Atlanta — this season. But nothing he’s done […]
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3.8K2A’s and Astros: A contrast in ambition
Investing money in any venture or pursuit is always a risky proposition. And when it comes to professional sports, we constantly hear sad tales of athletes who have squandered all their money through poor investments or who have simply spent themselves into oblivion. Yet when it comes to owners of sports franchises, almost all of […]
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11.8K26Madison Bumgarner isn’t racist, he’s a control freak
Some people believe Madison Bumgarner is racist. They say the evidence speaks for itself. Just use your eyes — he keeps yelling at hitters who flip their bats, and none of the bat-flippers he’s yelled at are white. Here’s a list: Jesus Guzman, Yasiel Puig, Alex Guerrero, Carlos Gomez, Delino Deshields (last night). In all […]
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2.9K9Giants end homestand with 5-0 win, now it’s time to get David Price
I’ve been really rational about up to this point. The Giants are only screwing around with the Dodgers, I wrote. They should set their sights on Mike Leake, I wrote. It’s in the Giants’ nature to stand pat and trust in their veterans, I wrote. In David Price trade talks, #Tigers expected to prioritize major-league-ready […]
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Giants have the best battery in baseball
You won’t find too many people who’d call Buster Posey the best player in baseball. Mike Trout is the God of WAR,...
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2.7K1Giants starters answered some rotation questions this week
Just for fun, I’m going to write something that’ll piss off the Small Sample Size Police Dept. Because if you can’t piss off the uber-correctors, the people who get joy from being better at staring at numbers than everyone else and letting the world know, then what is the point in maintaining a regional sports […]
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3.1K3What to make of these suddenly dominant San Francisco Giants
Just because the Warriors are in the NBA’s final four — and winning entertaining games by the slimmest of margins — doesn’t mean the Giants won’t get a mention for what they’ve done over the past three days. Sweeping the Dodgers at any time is about as enormous as any 2% chunk of the season […]
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3.5K15Bumgarner is Bumgarner again: Giants’ ace outpitches Kershaw, yells at Dodger
This was one of those games where any fan who was wearing orange and black in the Dodger Stadium stands will brag about how they were in attendance for the rest of his or her days. The official score of pitchers’ duels is 2-1 (although the judges will also accept 1-0), and Madison Bumgarner was just that much […]
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3.0K9Good vibrations: Giants win Bumgarner vs. Kershaw showdown with Panik’s walk-off sac fly
The bottom of the ninth was so very, very Giants, the kind of walk-off win that would’ve seemed routine last April. Madison Bumgarner was good but he wasn’t perfect, San Francisco’s offense was opportunistic but hardly powerful, but it was all enough for a 3-2 win and the Giants’ first on-field celebration of the young season. […]
