Giants Now a Dynasty of Their Own… Thanks to a Bum.

The San Francisco Giants have one man to thank for their third World Series title in five years: Madison Bumgarner

Now that the San Francisco Giants of the 2010’s are baseball’s dynasty of the decade, we must announce that going forward pitcher Madison Bumgarner the emperor, king, ruler, Lord of this newly established dynasty, because lets be honest, there’s no way the Giants would’ve won this series without his heroics.

“It’s like the guy isn’t human,” Giants DH Michael Morse, who notched a pair of RBI’s including the go-ahead run in the top of the fourth said. “What can you say, he did everything.”

Then there’s that “even-number year” theory, but we won’t get into that today.

San Francisco clinched their third World Series title in five years after defeating the Kansas City Royals 3-2 in Game 7 of the World Series Wednesday night and did it in traditional Giants fashion that was established in 2010, refined in 2012 and made a staple in 2014: torturous and on the road (again).

This year, the Giants added another hero to its list of World Series heroes this decade. Bumgarner single-handedly (or single-armed) guided the Giants to their third Commissioner’s Trophy.

Bumgarner won two of the four World Series games, the second win coming in a pivotal Game 5 where Bumgarner pitched the first complete-game shutout in a World Series since Josh Beckett shut out the Yankees in Game 6 in 2003.

He isn’t the only hero on this year’s championship roster. Hunter Pence had a huge World Series, going 12-for-27 at the plate and score eight runs and Pablo Sandoval got three hits in Game 7, scoring on one of his two runs on Morse’s RBI single in the fourth.

“Great players have a way of rising to the occasion,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy mentioned. “He did that.”

Sandoval hit .366 (26-for-71) this postseason with five RBI’s.

Then there’s the rookie second baseman Joe Panik, who turned what may have been the biggest double-play of his life in the third inning.

“That was the key to the game,” reliever Jeremy Affeldt, who earned the Game 7 win, said. “It kept them from rallying for another inning. So I think being able to shut it down real quick allowed me to go out for another inning. That was a big deal. For me, that was the biggest play of the night.”

However, while there are a lot of unsung heroes on this Giants team, as in their previous two World Series teams, the spotlight once again goes back to their ace, the country-hardball southpaw Madison Bumgarner.

Bumgarner lowered his World Series ERA to 0.43 and improved his record in the Fall Classic to 4-0. His ERA is the lowest since Sandy Koufax in 1965 with the L.A. Dodgers.

He single-handedly (or single-armed) silenced the sellout crowd of 40,535 after he entered the game in the fifth inning, getting the final out of the game on Salvador Perez’s pop-up to Sandoval in third base foul territory. Bumgarner pitched five innings of relief, allowing just two hits with four strikeouts, earning the Game 7 save.

“It’s incredible what he did,” Bochy said. “Truly, it’s historic.”

“There’s no way I would take him out. I just jumped on that horse and rode it.”

Bumgarner is the second Giants pitcher to throw complete-game shutouts in the World Series. Christy Mathewson threw three complete-game shutouts in Games 1,3 and 5 of the 1903 World Series. He also threw more innings (52 2/3) than anyone else in a single postseason while recording a 1.03 ERA and strikeout-to-walk ratio of 7:1.

Let’s also remember he threw nearly 70 pitches in five shutout innings of relief in an elimination game on just two days rest.

Hero: yes.

Legend: quite possibly.

The Giants of the 2010’s will be one of those dynasties that will always be talked about because of the stars they don’t have and the way they just win in October.

“Madison Bumgarner, what can you say about him and their team,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “It was almost hopeless (feeling). That’s a special group of guys over there.”

They weren’t supposed to win in 2010 and definitely weren’t supposed to win by a sweep in 2012.  Then came 2104 where everyone became enamored with the Royals improbable run, forgetting who did it first this decade: San Francisco.

With some help from a Bum, the Giants did what they weren’t supposed to do again: win (another) World Series.

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