Posted on 02/25/2020 2:43:56 PM PST by Mariner
Not many people know Madison Bumgarner as well as his former manager Bruce Bochy.
Bumgarner was only 19 years old when he made his major league debut for Bochy and the Giants in 2009. He spent 11 years taking the mound with Bochy manning the dugout in San Francisco. The two formed a close bond over more than a decade together, while winning three World Series championships.
But even Bochy seemed surprised by Bumgarner's rodeo alias "Mason Saunders" that he used over recent years in team-roping competitions. The Athletic reported Sunday that Bumgarner has participated in competitions under an alias, which had former teammates laughing a day later as they prepared to face Bumgarner's Arizona Diamondbacks.
"This is the first I'm hearing of Mr. Saunders," Bochy said to reporters.
While Bochy seemed coy on his knowledge of Mr. Saunders, he did hint at some other activities Bumgarner has found himself in outside of a baseball field.
"I mean there's some stories I do know that he probably wouldn't want me to share, with him bear hunting, and the tight situations he's gotten himself into," Bochy said Monday on KNBR's "Murph & Mac Show."
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Huevos Rancheros Grande.
Anyone know of a tougher, more American athlete than Madison Bumgarner?
It must be because of the name...
I didn’t know bears have hands.
Skin Griz, it ain’t for the faint of heart. Watch “Jeremiah Johnson” pilgrim.
Hand to hand with a bear is kinda tough, unless it’s a very small bear, you’re built like a line backer and “hand to hand” is an euphemism for “armed with spear and/or sword and clad in plate armor”.
Nope. Whitey Ford hands down.
“greatest pitching performance in playoff history”
I have read that Mickey Lolich has a different opinion.
What he did to my Royals in the 14 Series should be a movie.
Well that’s racist.../s
Pro sports and their salaries have gotten too far out of line.......but yet the fans continue to support them.
Most innings pitched in a single postseason: 52 2⁄3, 2014[170]
Most starts in a single postseason: 6, 2014 (tied with Curt Schilling, 2001, Chris Carpenter, 2011, and Corey Kluber, 2016)[171]
Most postseason starts of at least 7 shutout innings: 6[172]
World Series records
Lowest career World Series ERA (minimum 20 innings of work): 0.25 in 36 innings pitched[170][173]
Highest career win-loss percentage: 1.000 in 36 innings pitched[166]
Highest win-loss percentage in a single World Series: 1.000 in 21 innings pitched, 2014[166]
Lowest career walks and hits per innings pitched: 0.528 in 36 innings pitched[166]
Lowest career hits per nine innings pitched: 3.500 in 36 innings pitched[166]
Fewest hits allowed in a single World Series by any pitcher with at least 20 innings pitched: 9 in 21 innings, 2014[170]
Most shutout innings in relief in a World Series game 7: 5 (tie with Joe Page)[170]
Longest save in a World Series game: 5 innings in Game 7, 2014[170]
Longest save in a winner-take-all game: 5 innings in Game 7, 2014[170]
Most World Series games won through age 25: 4[170]
First MLB pitcher in a single World Series to earn at least two wins, throw a shutout and earn a save – in 2014[170]
First MLB pitcher in a World Series to pitch a shutout with no walks and at least eight strikeouts – game 5 in 2014[170]
See post #10.
Whitey Ford doesn’t hold those records.
Bumgarner does.
“What he did to my Royals in the 14 Series should be a movie.”
See #10 on the records he set in that series.
It had to be excruciating for a KC fan.
“...a shutout with no walks and at least eight strikeouts.”
That is expert pitching, for sure. The MLB batters are top-notch and shutting them out takes skill.
Sorry, Lew Burdette 1957 WS against the Yankees. Pitched and won games 2, 5 and 7. Three complete games against the Yankees, scores were 4-2, 1-0 and 5-0. He pitched with 4 days and then 3 days rest between games. Pitched 27 innings and gave up 2 runs, that’s an era of .079. No other performance has matched that.
Or was it mano a bearo?
No way SF wins that Series without him. You tip your cap to him, and comeback next year and take out your frustration on the NY Mets.
He wouldn’t have to cross the bridge to find “bears”, the Castro District is full of them...
In Spanish that would be “mano a oso”.
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