San Francisco game four and five

Well, here comes the download.  By the end of game four we were finished with Detroit in 2012.  By the end of game five, we were through with Texas in 2010.  So now Kansas City has at least gotten us to return to their turf.

Giants win game four and game five, to take a 3 - 2 lead.  

I missed game four because cable in our area went all out all day Saturday (piss on them the bastards).  Apparently San Francisco won it by a whopping 11 - 4 margin--I use words like 'whopping' to indicate to the cable company how much they disappoint--and I missed it!  So by Saturday evening, Giants tied the series 2 games each.

Yesterday (Sunday) San Francisco went on a rampage, scoring 5-runs while allowing Kansas City nothing.  Nada, zero, capoot!  A shut-out in baseball is at least one of the tiers of excellence.

Pitcher Madison Bumgarner was magnificent...well, let me turn up the volume and you can hear what they are saying:

USA Today wrote:SAN FRANCISCO — He's Bob Gibson in black and orange.

He's the Sandy Koufax of Northern California.

He's the San Francisco Giants' modern-day version of Carl Hubbell.

Or maybe we're shortchanging Madison Bumgarner.

The way he's pitching, there's absolutely no one like him.

Bumgarner once more put on a pitching clinic on baseball's greatest stage Sunday, leading the Giants to a 5-0 victory against the Kansas City Royals and moving them to within one victory of their third World Series title in five years.

And this:

USA Today wrote:Bumgarner has now thrown 47 2/3 innings this postseason, the second most of any pitcher in a single postseason. He trails Curt Schilling’s record 48 1/3 mark with Arizona in 2001 by only 2/3 of a frame. And in his 47 2/3 innings this postseason, Bumgarner has a 1.13 ERA. His 0.29 career ERA in the World Series is the best ever by anyone with at least 25 innings pitched in Fall Classics.

And finally:

USA Today wrote:The Giants’ ace and NLCS MVP was dominant yet again on Sunday, fanning eight Royals and walking none in his second complete-game shutout this postseason and first since the Wild Card game. Bumgarner looked unhittable in Game 5, yielding only three singles and a squibber of a double to Omar Infante. There’s really just nothing more to say about the guy at this point; he has been totally dominant all postseason.

So, on to Tuesday night.  Do we win?  Or do those hated American leaguers forestall the inevitable, and leave us biting our nails on Wednesday night?

Here's hoping the Royals at least take it to a Game 7 ... always more fun and memorable. Remember the 91 Series, Minnesota vs. Atlanta? There's a reason it's widely considered one of the best of all time; thoroughly enjoyable and a nail-biter on practically every pitch as the series progressed.

Giants win if Bumgarner starts again, 3 day rest is hard but he has been a beast