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Your Facebook name, photo & other personal information you make public on Facebook will appear with your comment, and may be used on ESPN's media platforms. Chris Hatcher (1-0) retired pinch-hitter Joe Panik on a called third strike to send the game into extras, then Kenley Jansen finished for his second save. The Dodgers were on the other side of a 3-2 result in 10 innings a night earlier. The matchup between two of the best pitchers in the game was anticipated for what each would do on the mound, but Bumgarner upped the ante. This was the third time this season that Bumgarner, the current World Series MVP, had started against Kershaw — the Giants have won all three.
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It has been a dozen years of destruction, plain and simple, but every once in a while, he'll hang a curveball or throw a slider that didn't get enough depth. The Giants have 19 homers against Kershaw, including two from Madison Bumgarner, one of which will air tonight at 8 p.m. Bumgarner is the only pitcher to ever hit a home run off Kershaw.
It was a scary moment for Belt, who sustained a broken left thumb early last season, but he remained in the game. "I think I got it in there, maybe it was probably over the plate a little too much. He hit it pretty good," Kershaw said. "We're going against the best pitcher in baseball, we had the lead with the closer out there. That's all you can ask for," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "Any time you give up a home run to the pitcher, it doesn't feel good," Kershaw said. "It's supposed to be the easiest out you have. He's a little different, obviously. He's a pretty solid hitter. You don't want to give up a hit to a pitcher, let alone a home run." Bumgarner broke a tie for fifth place with Mickey Welch on the Giants' all-time list for home runs by pitchers.
Bumgarner homers off Kershaw, Giants again blank Dodgers
Bumgarner homered off Kershaw last year, which means he's the only player with multiple home runs against Kershaw since the start of last season, per ESPN Stats and Info. Moreover, Bumgarner's second career homer off Kershaw duplicated the one he hit off the three-time NL Cy Young Award winner last May 21. Bumgarner joined a select group of 15 players who have homered off Kershaw at least twice. This list includes Most Valuable Player-level performers and legitimate sluggers .
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Bumgarner's solo shot gave the Giants, who would eventually win 4–0, a 1–0 lead. It was his first homer of the season and the sixth given up by Kershaw this year. It's also the first home run he's ever allowed to an opposing pitcher. Kershaw was charged with four runs on seven hits and two walks and drilled Brandon Belt on the back of his right hand with a 92 mph fastball.
Bumgarner sent a 1-1 pitch into the left field bleachers but gave back that run in the top of the third, allowing three singles before hitting Scott Van Slyke with a pitch to force home a run. Van Slyke was lifted for pinch-runner Joc Pederson because of lower back tightness. Bumgarner blasted a home run off Kershaw in the second inning of Saturday's NL West battle between the Dodgers and Giants.
This was the third time this season that Bumgarner, the current World Series MVP, had started against Kershaw - the Giants have won all three. "I'm going to go up there and compete when I'm at the plate, too, but I don't want to get out of what I'm doing ," he said. "It's fun playing those guys. We get to match up against them a lot. There's kind of a history between the two teams, but at the same time you have to kind of find a way to push that aside when you go out there to pitch." Bumgarner's long ball was the 12th of his career, tying him with ex-National Leaguer Yovani Gallardo of Baltimore for the most among active pitchers. Buster Posey has three homers against him, but the rest of the current roster only has three combined, and one of those comes from newcomer Wilmer Flores. The mainstays have had a nightmare of a time, with Brandon Belt currently carrying a 4-for-60 line and Brandon Crawford sitting not much better at 6-for-48.
He improved to 9-3 in his last 13 starts against the Dodgers. The Giants homered in their sixth straight game to match the most consecutive games with a longball to begin a year dating to 1913. Madison Bumgarner is out to get Clayton Kershaw. Last season, Bumgarner was the first pitcher to ever hit a home run off Kershaw. During the Giants-Dodgers game on Saturday, Bumgarner did it again.
Bumgarner's 12 career homers -- two of those off Kershaw -- matched Yovani Gallardo for most career home runs among active pitchers. The Giants ace allowed one run and six hits in six innings with one walk. Kershaw gave up four hits and two runs and walked one. The Dodgers began the season with 31 straight scoreless innings by the pitchers. They will go for a series split Sunday after putting the leadoff hitter aboard in five innings Saturday, including on four doubles.
Bumgarner became the first pitcher to homer off Kershaw (2-3). The Giants” star connected for his seventh career home run, hitting a solo shot into the left field bleachers in the third. The Giants' star connected for his seventh career home run, hitting a solo shot into the left field bleachers in the third. Bumgarner now has 12 career home runs, tied for the most among active pitchers with Orioles starter Yovani Gallardo. Bumgarner hit .252 with 9 home runs and 24 RBIs over the course of his 2014 and 2015 All-Star seasons, so his power at the plate should come as no surprise.
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