{"id":9922,"date":"2014-10-30T11:56:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T15:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=9922"},"modified":"2014-10-30T11:56:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T15:56:55","slug":"madison-bumgarner-ws-mvp-and-couldnt-beat-the-nats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=9922","title":{"rendered":"Madison Bumgarner: WS MVP &#8230; and couldn&#8217;t beat the Nats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9923\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BumgarnerMadison-5-beers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9923\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9923\" alt=\"Bumgarner was other-worldly this post-season.  Photo via thebiglead.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BumgarnerMadison-5-beers-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BumgarnerMadison-5-beers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BumgarnerMadison-5-beers.jpg 858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bumgarner was other-worldly this post-season. Photo via thebiglead.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;d just like to point out, for the record, that the Nats NLDS Game 3 win over <strong>Madison Bumgarner<\/strong> was the ONLY game this post season that the Giants lost, when Bumgarner pitched.<\/p>\n<p>A quick glance at his Baseball-Reference.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/gl.cgi?id=bumgama01&amp;t=p&amp;year=0&amp;post=1\">post-season game log<\/a> is pretty sick:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete game 4-hit shutout of a very hot Pittsburgh team in the WC game.<\/li>\n<li>Took the loss by giving up 3 runs (2 earned) in 7 innings against the Nats<\/li>\n<li>Threw 7 2\/3 shutout innings over St. Louis in Game 1 of the NLCS.<\/li>\n<li>Gave up 3 runs on 5\u00a0 hits in 8 innings against St. Louis in Game 5 of the NLCS (his only no decision)<\/li>\n<li>Gave up 3 hits in game 1 of the World Series<\/li>\n<li>Threw another complete game 4-hit shutout in game 5 of the WS<\/li>\n<li>Came back on 2 days rest to throw 5 innings of 2-hit ball to earn the &#8220;save&#8221; in game 7.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow.\u00a0 Pretty much the definition of the MVP.\u00a0 Talk about a sick post-season.<\/p>\n<p>Still couldn&#8217;t beat the Nats though \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Let the off-season begin!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d just like to point out, for the record, that the Nats NLDS Game 3 win over Madison Bumgarner was the ONLY game this post season that the Giants lost, when Bumgarner pitched. A quick glance at his Baseball-Reference.com post-season game log is pretty sick: Complete game 4-hit shutout of a very hot Pittsburgh team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,2036],"tags":[894],"class_list":["post-9922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","category-natsgeneral","category-post-season","tag-madison-bumgarner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9925,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions\/9925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}