Madison Bumgarner has already cemented his place among the greatest postseason pitchers in baseball history. He has a career 1.94 ERA in 97 1/3 playoff innings and a 0.25 ERA in 36 World Series innings — the best all time among pitchers with double-digit innings.
He is the first pitcher in baseball history to throw a complete-game shutout in two different winner-take-all games — Wednesday’s National wild-card game and the 2014 NL wild-card game. He also is one of just four pitchers with at least three career postseason shutouts — Whitey Ford, Mordecai Brown and Josh Beckett, with three each, and Christy Mathewson, with four, are the others.