The San Francisco Giants and the Colorado Rockies played 18 innings of baseball last night. In that game, the Giants used every available reliever (and even Derek Rodriguez got used as a pinch hitter). So the one thing the Giants wanted was to have today's afternoon starter give them a good outing. Who better than Madison Bumgarner, 50% stubborn ox anyway?
Madison did what he was asked, and did it well. 98 pitches got him through 7 innings. He gave up 1 run in the 6th and 1 in the 7th after the Giants already had 3 on the board.