Starting pitcher Zo
In spite of discouraging days like the day before yesterday, on other days the Giants manage to turn in some pretty competent baseball. Yesterday, Madison Bumgarner dueled the dogger ace, Clayton Kershaw and beat him. I think I heard Jon Miller say that Madison and Kershaw have faced off 5 times, with Madison walking away with the W in 4 of them.
Not a lot of scoring in this game, which is what you expect from these guys. Madison allowed 5 hits and 1 run in 8 innings. Santiago Castilla, who blew through the 9th on 10 pitches including a game-ending K of the fearsome Adrian Gonzalez.