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What we learned: The legend of Madison Bumgarner adds another chapter

If you haven't enjoyed these two wild-card games, I don't know what to tell you. Let's hope these games foretell a postseason for the ages.

1. That Bumgarner guy is pretty good. The pitching matchup between Madison Bumgarner and Noah Syndergaard lived up to its hype, giving us the first scoreless duel through seven innings in a sudden-death playoff game since John Smoltz and Jack Morris faced off in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series. Bumgarner threw his second shutout in a wild-card game after blanking the Pirates in 2014, making him the first to pitcher to throw a shutout in two sudden-death games (and that doesn't even include his five scoreless innings in relief in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series).