The San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers play a rubber game Wednesday night on ESPN. A few Dodger players took issue with how Bumgarner handled himself and made that clear with their postgame quotes to the media.
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“At least three Dodgers – Puig, Adrian Gonzalez, and Jose De Leon – chose to mock Bumgarner for Monday night’s incident, wearing shirts with the hashtag, “#DontLookAtMe”. Dodgers win, 2-1. Well, the Dodgers lead the Giants by six games in the NL West.
It’s the ninth time this season the Giants have lost a game when leading after eight innings. “Don’t [expletive] look at me!” toward Puig as he walked off the field after the seventh inning.
Of course Bumgarner and Yasiel Puig had a dust-up during last night’s game, and there has been some speculation that could be part of the reason Bochy chose to pull his ace even with his pitch count well in hand, especially given the team’s dire circumstances.
At 11:55 p.m., @SFGiants fired off a tweet which said: “Mr Bumgarner gets KKKike for the 3rd time tonight”.
Fowler’s two-out base hit drove in Chris Coghlan from second to break at 2-2 tie as the Cubs snapped a two-game losing streak in the opener of a three-game Wrigley Field series. The Giants needed two more innings out of him, but instead he lost his composure and let the team down. “I felt that was good for him”.
“I don’t know why he came out”, Kershaw said. “It definitely motivates us and seems to have a distraction in their head”.
Bumgarner allowed one hit over seven scoreless innings, struck out 10, walked none and retired his final 10 batters.
Bumgarner, after blasting through the Dodgers’ lineup for 7 innings in under 100 pitches, easily seemed physically able to go at least one more inning-and reducing the bullpen responsibility by at least 50% or more.
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Coming back from commercial to lead off the bottom of the seventh, Scully narrated the replay of the stare down between Madison Bumgarner and Yasiel Puig that resulted in the benches clearing.
