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Bumgarner goes 8 scoreless, dominates Padres

SAN FRANCISCO -- The genuine Madison Bumgarner showed up Thursday at AT&T Park. You know him. He's the guy who strings together zeros on the scoreboard like pearls on a necklace, for whom pitching late into the game is an imperative, not an anomaly, and who considers generating offense as important as preventing it.

Bumgarner's fingerprints were all over the Giants' 3-0 victory over the Padres, which was exactly the way he wanted it.

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Bumgarner went eight innings and never encountered serious trouble in the series opener against the Padres, who have lost five consecutive games.