A decade ago a primetime NL West contest featuring Madison Bumgarner against Clayton Kershaw would have been a must watch pitching matchup. Fast forward to the present day and both pitchers are no longer even the Opening Day starter of their respective pitching staffs. As we saw tonight with at least MadBum, time remains undefeated unfortunately.
The Los Angeles Dodgers got to work on immediately putting the Diamondbacks in a significant deficit in the first inning. As quite a few pointed out on Twitter this evening, Bumgarner’s velocity has fallen even further from where it was last year.