When asked his first question after the game on how he’d assess his performance, Bumgarner let out a sigh.
“I felt much better about my personal performance than the line showed but it don’t really matter because the only thing that matters is the line and what I did to help us win,” he said.
Or as Jack put it on Twitter, “Bumgarner’s ERA as a Diamondback went from 6.48 to7.09 today.”
“The Diamondbacks know better than to overanalyze Thursday’s 8-7 defeat against those same Padres to start their 2021 season, but they would like to assert the losing team’s prerogative of clinging to the positives.