It's another dark day for San Francisco Giants fans, as well as fantasy baseball managers, as ace left-hander Madison Bumgarner broke a bone in his pitching hand during a Friday spring training game, Giants beat writers have reported.
Bumgarner took a direct hit from a line drive by Kansas City's Whit Merrifield. He fractured the fifth metacarpal, the bone attached to the pinkie finger, X-rays showed. No timetable has been set, but some estimates are expecting it'll be six to eight weeks. Similar injuries have taken some pitchers as long as three months to recover from.
Though a significant blow to the 2018 Giants, this injury earned Bumgarner a lot less ridicule than the one that sent him to the disabled list last year.