Madison Bumgarner was on last night and when a pitcher is on it is a beautiful thing to watch.
For all the talk about how young Bumgarner is and how he is a rookie, last night he was simply a great pitcher on the mound getting outs against a very tough lineup.
He had the icy stare of a vet and the fearlessness of a man who was born to pitch in these situations and the numbers look just as good as he did last night.
Pitch Statistics
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Pitch Type | Avg Speed | Max Speed | Avg H-Break | Avg V-Break | Count | Strikes / % | Linear Weights |
FF (FourSeam Fastball) | 90.91 | 94.4 | 6.01 | 9.17 | 44 | 30 / 68.18% | -1.4700 |
CH (Changeup) | 83.61 | 85.2 | 9.09 | 5.53 | 21 | 16 / 76.19% | -1.6735 |
SL (Slider) | 84.63 | 87 | -1.25 | 4.11 | 25 | 18 / 72.00% | -1.1357 |
CU (Curveball) | 75.60 | 76.9 | -6.14 | -3.35 | 5 | 1 / 20.00% | 0.0144 |
FT (TwoSeam Fastball) | 89.55 | 92.3 | 8.87 | 8.37 | 11 | 4 / 36.36% | -0.0186 |
Information from brooksbaseball.net/.
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Bumgarner has thrown the best game of this World Series, doing better then Cy Young winners and , better than All-Star , and better then , and who have had praise heaped upon them this week.
His line was excellent, 8 innings, 3 hits, 2 walks, 6 strike outs, 0 runs, only 1 runner reaching second base.
Even that first walk was a questionable one when you look at the pitch locations. It certainly looked like he might have been squeezed in that first inning.
There is a great piece by from fangraph's Jack Moore putting how good Bumgarner was into historical perspective that is well worth the read.
Here is a snippet:
"The games started by and represent the 1,231 and 1,232 pitching starts in World Series history. Only 137 of them have seen a pitcher throw at least eight innings and allow zero earned runs. The number drops to 27 when we restrict ourselves to the modern era (1969-present) and only 13 in the Wild Card era (1993-present). Bumgarner's game score of 80 ranks tied for 84th all-time. Only 19 pitchers have bested that game score since 1969, and only seven (, , , , , , and ) have done it since 1993."A tip of the hat to Mad Bum who has put the Giants in the drivers seat the rest of the way winning a pivotal game and doing so in an impressive fashion.
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