SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. - Madison Bumgarner approached Bruce Bochy and jokingly offered his manager a big hug after an off-season apart.
On any other day, Bochy likely would have accepted the warm gesture from his ace pitcher, but two days after the skipper’s left shoulder surgery there was no way that would be their first greeting of spring training. Good thing Bochy’s healing left arm was safely tucked inside his shirt after the Monday procedure to repair a torn labrum, remove painful bone spurs and reattach a biceps tendon that was approximately half torn.
“Bum sees me and he goes, ‘Give me a hug,’” Bochy said Wednesday, noting the pain medication is helping relieve some discomfort.