Crawford, who was appearing in his team-high 148th game of the season, entered the contest leading the Giants with 80 RBI – four shy of the career-high total he recorded a year ago.
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The photo on Gonzalez’s Twitter account had him, Kenley Jansen and Justin Turner striking the same pose in the same shirt.
In May 2014, after Puig hit a 431-foot home run to center field and flipped his bat, Bumgarner took exception and waited for Puig as he rounded third base before the two exchanged pleasantries as tempers flared. Puig then looked at Bumgarner, who then responded by repeatedly yelling “Don’t look at me!”
Joe Blanton (6-2) won in relief following a tense pitchers’ duel between Bumgarner and fellow ace Clayton Kershaw.
“He asked me, ‘Why you looking at me?'” Puig said through a translator, per The Associated Press. “That’s what it looked like to me”. Bumgarner celebrated the third out which didn’t sit well with Puig because the two started a shouting match which led to each dugout emptying. “It definitely motivates us and seems to have a distraction in their head”.
Puig said he wasn’t sure whether Bumgarner had something personal against him. “I asked him why he was looking at me”.
The Giants led the division by 6 1/2 games at the All-Star break but lost the lead to the Dodgers on August 21.
Hey, players can dislike other players and Puig’s career is littered with people-on his team and on other teams-who dislike him.
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As the Giants’s playoff chances continue to dwindle, the bullpen at last night’s game against the Dodgers wasn’t the only part of the team raising eyebrows in shock and dropping jaws in disbelief. They’re now six games behind the Dodgers for first place in the NL West, their largest deficit all season. With his second-inning double, Puig stood as the only Dodger to reach base against Bumgarner.
