This is what Giants fans have been seeing for years - "Big Game" Bumgarner. The question for Bochy, Righetti and the Giants becomes, do you schedule Bummer for Games 4 and 7 and say to the Royals, in effect, "If you want to win this thing. you're going to have to go through Madison Bumgarner". I'm sure Bumgarner would sign up for the assignment. I'm not sure if Bochy will do it, out of deference to the other starting pitchers and the perception that it would feel like a bit of a panic move. But with the travel day, it almost has to be at least a consideration for the Giants staff.
from Giants Extra:
“There is no bigger stage. But he’s just Madison Bumgarner.” And he's the last ace standing. - Giants Extra:
He is 3-0 with a 0.41 ERA in three World Series starts and 3-1 with a 1.40 ERA this October while starting five of the Giants’ 11 games and throwing at least seven innings each time. This postseason has humbled one big name after the next, but Bumgarner is better than he has ever been.
"There is no bigger stage,” right fielder Hunter Pence said. “But he’s just Madison Bumgarner.”
Right now, he’s not just Madison Bumgarner. He’s the best big-game pitcher in a sport that wears you down over 162 games and then forms your legacy with snapshots taken as the weather cools. The Giants didn’t particularly need Bumgarner to be brilliant Tuesday, not with the lineup jumping on Shields, the Royals’ ace curiously nicknamed Big Game James."'via Blog this'
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