The Giants' kiddies take over

The Giants are one win away.

Their kiddie battery was incredible. Posey had a homer and threw out a runner, but the real star was Bumgarner. I told you the kid could pitch. This is the guy who went 34-6 in the minors when he was barely out of high school. It's a monstrous victory because it forces the Rangers to win three in a row against the Giants Big Three. That's highly improbable.

Here's a story about Bumgarner from his home state's newspaper. (He pitched his high school team to the state baseball championship in 2007.)

Good story about a good kid. Real Americana. He's kinda from Hickory, North Carolina, but he actually hails from "... a tiny rural community in a rural agricultural county. “Bumtown” -- so named almost a century ago for all the Bumgarners living on both sides of Deal Mill Road -- is actually a mile northeast of Sawmills, four miles southeast of Hudson, three miles northeast of Granite Falls, three miles west of Oak Hill, nine miles south of Lenoir, four miles northwest of Dudley Shoals and 10 miles northwest of Hickory."