LOS ANGELES - We all know this. The same personality traits that make someone great can also be their Achilles' heel. To wit, Madison Bumgarner.
He has stones, the kind that would will him to pitch the last five innings of the 2014 World Series two days after throwing a shutout in Game 5, that would keep him so calm in the ninth inning of that game after Alex Gordon reached third base.
Bumgarner pitched his best game in more than a month Monday night, in a must-win setting, against a team that had beaten him four straight times and clocked him on the same field the last time he pitched there.