2019.03.28 – Bumgarner’s strong opener spoiled – Giants fall to Padres
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2018.09.28 – Homer spoils Bumgarner’s final start – Giants fall to Dodgers
2018.09.28 – Madison Bumgarner, the 2014 World Series hero and four-time All-Star encountered a two-run homer by LA’s Turner for the final start of the season as the Giants fell to the Dodgers. Los Angeles remained one game behind first-place Colorado in the National League West.
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2018.09.15 – Vintage Bumgarner! Giants Shutout Rockies 3-0
2018.09.15 – Madison Bumgarner brought the zeros that he formerly plastered onto the scoreboard with regularity and complemented his pitching with his hitting. He worked six innings, allowed five hits and walked one. The Giants got their second shutout victory in a row, a 3-0 decision over the Rockies.
2018.09.14 – Stratton pitches CG Shutout! Giants snap slide
2018.09.14 – Chris Stratton pitched a two-hitter complete game shutout and Austin Slater backed him with a two-run single, as San Francisco snapped its longest skid since 1951 by beating the Colorado Rockies 2-0 on #OrangeFriday night.
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2018.09.11 – Giants fall to history-matching 10th straight loss
2018.09.11 – The San Francisco Giants will be entrenched in history, whether they like it or not, with the 2018 season to forget. The 4-1 setback that the Atlanta Braves dealt the Giants at AT&T Park was their 10th consecutive defeat, matching the franchise’s longest streaks of futility since 1996.
2018.08.23 – Bumgarner Beats deGrom, Giants take finale 3-1
2018.08.23 – The last time Madison Bumgarner toed the rubber at Citi Field, the Giants and Bumgarner powered through the 2016 National League Wild Card Game. Flash forward, and a NL Cy Young Award-caliber NY Met, Jacob deGrom — who is battling through one of the best pitching seasons in modern history — stands between Bumgarner and a win. No matter. Nowhere on the Major League circuit is Bumgarner more dominant. And it showed again on Thursday’s 3-1 win over the NY Mets.
2018.08.23 – Bumgarner loses groove – Giants fall to Reds 7-1
2018.08.18 – Madison Bumgarner was stunned by his vulnerability in the Giants’ 7-1 loss to the Reds. The ace provided great pitching for the first three innings, blanking Cincinnati on one hit. However, Bumgarner proceeded to yield a season-high six runs (five earned) over the next three innings. San Francisco have now fallen within 8.0 games in the National League West. Giants fall to Reds 7-1.
2018.08.16 – Rodriguez to DL – Injury sustained during brawl with Dodgers
2018.08.16 – SAN FRANCISCO — Tuesday’s brief scuffle at Dodger Stadium ended up being much more costly for the Giants than for the Dodgers. A few hours after Yasiel Puig was suspended two games by Major League Baseball, the Giants announced that rookie right-hander Dereck Rodriguez was placed on the disabled list after being hurt during the altercation between the Dodgers outfielder and San Francisco catcher Nick Hundley.
2018.07.13 – Bumgarner pitched 5K! Giants beat A’s in Battle of the Bay Opener
2018.07.13 – Madison Bumgarner pitched three-hit ball over six innings. Bumgarner (3-3) allowed one run with five strikeouts in his third consecutive win over the A’s. The Giants won, 7-1, to capture the first installment of the Bay Bridge Series.
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Bumgarner Dominates! Giants shut down the Padres 3-0
2018.06.21 – Madison Bumgarner pitched eight innings and struck out eight in his best start of the season. He also drove in the first run with a sacrifice fly for his first win of the season, as the San Francisco Giants shut down the San Diego Padres 3-0.
Bumgarner’s Solid Debut! Giants edged by D-baks 3-2
2018.06.05 – A healthy Madison Bumgarner made his 2018 debut with a solid six innings, allowing two runs on eight hits, and striking out three. A victory would have fittingly capped his return, but it fell short. The Giants lost to the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2.
Bumgarner Closer to Game Competition
2018.05.19 – Madison Bumgarner feels closer to being ready for game competition. Bumgarner threw 40 pitches off a mound in a bullpen session without hindrance from his fractured left hand, which the Giants’ ace called “95 percent or more” healed despite slight swelling. “Hitting, throwing, any baseball stuff feels normal,” he added.
Doctors removed pins in Bumgarner’s hand
2018.04.18 – Doctors removed three pins from Madison Bumgarner’s left hand, with the pins out, Bumgarner will now start to strengthen that left hand. Bruce Bochy said his pitcher could start playing catch within a couple of weeks.
Madison Bumgarner is Back !
Giants’ ace gets 2nd win since dirt bike accident. Giants top Cubs 3-1
Madison Bumgarner is back and he looked like his old self against the Chicago Cubs. If you wonder can he make a complete recovery from injuries sustained in a dirt biking accident? Don’t! Madison Bumgarner is back!
Bumgarner allowed four hits over seven innings to win for the second time since returning from the disabled list, helping the San Francisco Giants take two of three games from the World Series champion Cubs and won for the fourth time in five games and sixth in nine to defeat the Cubs 3-1 on Wednesday.
“Obviously there’s going to be some times when doubt creeps in,” Bumgarner said. “It’s just like anything else, you’ve got to deal with it. You can’t try to push it aside, you can’t try to trick yourself, you just try to deal with it.”
The Giants’ ace (2-5) struck out seven, walked one and gave up five hits – including a third-inning home run by Albert Almora Jr. The 2014 World Series MVP has a 1.38 ERA in his last four starts since returning July 12 after missing nearly three months because of injuries sustained on April 20th.
After three straight starts in which he lasted seven innings and allowed a combined three earned runs against a trio of National League playoff contenders– Bumgarner stood in the Giants’ clubhouse and once again answered a round of questions about the strength of his left shoulder.
Asked if his shoulder is fully healthy, with a suppressed laugh, Bumgarner joked smiled and said, “Yeah, but I’ll keep answering those questions.”
Bumgarner is a professional athlete, one who will almost certainly command $200+ million the next time he hits free agency. So even though Bumgarner has dominated the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks and finally the Chicago Cubs, three of the National League’s top clubs, in a span of 15 days, he fielded questions about a shoulder injury that he regrets ever happened.
“Good, yeah,” Bumgarner said, when asked how he’s feeling. “Normal, just like I always have,” he said, when he was pressed to go deeper.
I say by now, he shouldn’t have to answer any more questions about the accident or the strength of his shoulder. Madison Bumgarner is back!
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“I just think he’s shown what he’s really about with the way he’s thrown the ball because we know how good he is, but still, that was a pretty serious injury that he had to overcome,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
Though Bochy has limited Bumgarner’s pitch count, a reasonable move at this juncture of the season, Bumgarner knows what he’s still capable of.
“I feel like I can throw as many as they’ll let me,” Bumgarner said. “I’m sure we all got to be smart at this point. But I feel good.”
Hunter Strickland pitched a one-hit eighth and Sam Dyson completed the six-hitter with a perfect ninth for his eighth save.
San Francisco has won consecutive home series for the first time since May. The Giants went 5-3 on a home stand that included a two-game split against Oakland and two wins in three games against Arizona. The Giants went 5-2 against Cincinnati and the Dodgers from May 11-17.
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Joe Panik hit an RBI single in the second, Jarrett Parker had a tiebreaking single in the seventh against Brian Duensing (0-1) and Hunter Pence hit an opposite-field homer to right-center in the eighth against Pedro Strop.
Giants’ outfielder Hunter Pence said Bumgarner’s return in mid-July after missing nearly three months has been a turning point.
“It’s definitely not a coincidence,” Pence said. “There’s a big impact not just when he starts, but his presence alone carries a lot of confidence. That mentality seeps into everybody.”
For the second time in six days, the Giants clinched a series against a team jockeying for playoff positioning, and the San Francisco Giants did it behind Bumgarner, a pitcher whose presence goes far beyond the mound. So I say Madison Bumgarner is back!
Updated August 10, 2017.
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