With the San Francisco Giants getting ready to head back home for the final series of Spring Training games, the bad news keeps on coming. A day after it was revealed that Jeff Samardzija would miss time because of a pectoral strain, staff ace Madison Bumgarner was hit on the pitching hand by a comebacker.
Bumgarner’s opening day assignment was right around the corner, and he just needed to get through one final tuneup start. He couldn’t do so, with a sharply-hit line drive off the bat of Whit Merrifield striking Bumgarner in his left hand as he put it up in front of his body to protect himself.