Somebody’s gonna have to pull this vehicle over right now. The Dodgers play the Giants five more times this season, including a three-game series in San Francisco the last weekend of the regular season.
Advertisement
Yasiel Puig and the Dodgers found a way to poke fun at Monday’s bench-clearing scuffle that started after Madison Bumgarner told Puig to stop looking at him.
The Dodgers (85-65) padded their lead in the National League West to six games over the Giants (79-71), who dropped their third in a row.
Bumgarner struck out 10 batters, walked none, retired his final 10 batters and allowed only one hit over seven scoreless innings.
“Mr. Bumgarner gets KKKike for the third time tonight”, the offending statement read.
“We’ve got to absorb these”, Bochy insisted. “I guess it makes you want it more”.
Bumgarner didn’t do that last night, for reasons that remain unclear, and he left it up to the Giants’ bullpen, which was not equipped to handle this and hasn’t been equipped for most of the season.
“These guys have been through it”, Bochy said.
Will Smith got two outs in the eighth. To be honest, it hasn’t gone very well.
If you would like to receive an email each time a new Los Angeles Dodgers article is published, fill out our email notification form.
A win against the first-place Dodgers would have been massive. Not precise. Not blowing through a lineup.
“It was awesome”, Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw said.
The Giants don’t have a closer, they don’t have a set-up man, they don’t have a set-up man for the set-up man…
Gonzalez said in an on-field interview after the win that Bumgarner “needs to do a better job of getting in the dugout”. Javier Lopez relieved Law and gave up another single.
“It’s going to be a dogfight the rest of the way”, Bochy said. For the Dodgers, seeing whether Kershaw, Hill, and Maeda can face a playoff-caliber team will reassure they are the three starters for the playoffs.
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner throws to the plate during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in Los Angeles. Bumgarner fielded a ground ball by Puig and threw to first base for the out. In particular, Mr. Bumgarner seemed very much opposed to the idea that Mr. Puig, whom he had just yelled at, would deign to look at the big lefty. “I think he was trying to stare me down, it looked like”.
By the end, they were surrounded by something like 80 people, all looking at each other.
After communicating with San Francisco’s Brandon Belt, Culberson said the gift was a hit in the Giants’ clubhouse, just as it was in the Dodgers’ clubhouse. “We all know Bum’s pretty intense out there. He definitely stirred the fire on that one and he deserved it”. “He was asking for it”.
Advertisement
Then it blew up, and Bumgarner was the one who started the blow up. Nobody quite sees eye to eye.
