Top Tweets for #BIGPAPI

Bumgarner in 2014 takes this, and the last outing is the reason. He had already thrown a shutout in Game Five when San Francisco brought him out of the bullpen in Game Seven, on two days rest, and asked him for five innings. By that point the series had turned into a question about one man. He gave them five scoreless. Asking is the part I keep thinking about. Somebody in that dugout had to decide it was reasonable to send him back out, and he had to agree, and then it had to work. His career World Series earned run average is 0.25 across 36 innings, which is the lowest of anybody with meaningful volume, and volume is the qualifier that makes the number mean something instead of being a fluke of one good night. Gibson threw three complete game wins in the 1967 Series, which is a different kind of impossible and would win most versions of this card. Reggie has the single greatest game. Ortiz hit .688 in 2013, which is a batting average that looks like a typo in a postseason context. Any of those three is a defensible pick and I would not fight anyone over it. Bumgarner just refused to leave the field.