LOS ANGELES - If you hit a baseball for a living, don't you have to seek out Enrique Hernandez and beg for his secrets? Offer him a Rolex or a Bentley?
The Dodgers utilityman has discovered the Rosetta Stone for deciphering Madison Bumgarner. Put another way, Hernandez owns Bumgarner, and he made the final payment Friday night as the ninth Bumgarner-Clayton Kershaw bout devolved into a 7-3 Los Angeles victory.
Hernandez is 10-for-16 with three homers and four doubles against Bumgarner after hitting two solo homer and a two-run double in the opener of a three-game series at Dodger Stadium.