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. He then appeared to say to Puig, “Don’t look at me”.
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Someone in the Dodgers clubhouse quickly made “Don’t Look at Me” T-shirts, referencing what Bumgarner shouted at Puig to start their altercation.
San Francisco will have Johnny Cueto on the mound while the Dodgers will have lefty Rich Hill for the middle game of the series.
The hashtag was in reference to what Bumgarner yelled at Puig after the seventh inning of Monday night’s game.
The Dodgers four-hit, two-run winning rally in the ninth inning on Monday started with a single from pinch-hitter Andrew Toles. Here came Bochy. Lefty Javier Lopez, who used to be impossible for lefty hitters, came in.
“I didn’t hear what was going on”, Bumgarner said. “Joe couldn’t quite get to it”.
Bochy walked out and asked for Hunter Strickland, whose entrance and exit velocity can both reach triple-figures. His status will be updated when the Giants provide an official diagnosis.
The Dodgers now hold a commanding lead in the National League West while the Giants are fighting for their playoff lives, tied for the second Wild Card spot.
“They’re not going to go out to dinner”, he said.
Now the Giants find themselves in a much bigger jam, a game behind the New York Mets and tied with St. Louis for the second wild card spot-while showing no signs of being able to stop their freefall.
Order of events: Bumgarner pitches great, initiates festivities with Puig, comes out of the game, bullpen comes in, Giants lose. We’ve let a lot of these get away, but we’ll bounce back.
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None of that is even close to a full and logical explanation of course, so I assume we will learn more in the coming days. Bumgarner dressed quickly. He became tired of the Puig conversation just as quickly. “I think it was just a matter of some people not walking to their dugout like they should have”.
