SAN FRANCISCO — It was rather fitting that Madison Bumgarner’s final start of the first half came opposite the Futures Game being held down in San Diego. For all the left-hander has accomplished, he is still just 26 years old, and his last three months have shown that he might have as much room to grow as the young prospects who ran around Petco Park on Sunday night.
Even with a resume that is just about unmatched in today’s game, Bumgarner still has items on the bucket list. He came close to a big one against the Diamondbacks, taking a perfect game into the fifth and a no-hitter into the eighth.