Madison Bumgarner joins the very short list of pitchers who have won three games in a World Series. In the past 60 years, only five men have done it:
Lew Burdette, 1957 Milwaukee Braves
Bob Gibson, 1967 St Louis Cardinals
Mickey Lolich, 1968 Detroit Tigers
Randy Johnson, 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks
Madison Bumgarner, 2014 San Francisco Giants
Two of those guys (Burdette and Lolich) were not even the aces of their team (who were Spahn and McLain, respectively).
Nine other pitchers did it in baseball's earlier days. The greatest World Series pitching performance took place more than a century ago when Matty threw three complete game shutouts against the A's, thus almost winning the Series on his own. (His regular season wasn't bad that year, either: 31-9, with a 1.28 ERA. And that wasn't even his best year. In 1908 he was 37-11, with a 1.43 ERA and five saves. He allowed only 42 walks that year in a now-unimaginable 390 innings. In both of those years he won the pitching triple crown - wins, ERA, K's.)
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
The San Francisco Giants are the 2014 World Series Champions
The San Francisco Giants are the 2014 World Series Champions
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The ESPN box score shoes Bumgarder with a Save, not a Win.
ReplyDeleteThe official scorer initially credited Bumgardner with the win, but the decision was changed later in the night.
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