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October 15, 2012
Playoff Prospectus
NLCS Game 1 Recap: Cardinals 6, Giants 4
by Sam Miller
Guess the MLB.com headline!
a. Beltran, Freese Deliver Giants a Bummer
b. New October, Same Deep Freese
c. Death, Taxes and Freese and Beltran Owning October
d. One-Two Punch Has Bumgarner, Giants Seeing Birds
e. Bumgarner Can’t Deal With Cards Pair
Answer at the bottom.
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During Madison Bumgarner’s Game Two start against the Reds in the NLDS, Ron Darling noted this about the lefty’s long, limbsy delivery:
The hard part about this motion is that the Catch 22 is there’s deception, but when he drops his arm back there so far it’s hard for him to get inside against right-handers.
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The other problem for Bumgarner is that is his fastball velocity was 88-89 mph last night. He should be at about 92. He has clearly tired in the last month or so.
Yep, according to the scoreboard radar gun, he threw one pitch at 91, and then everything else was 87-90 and that's been the case for the last month. The same thing happened at the beginning of 2010 where he lost about 4 mph on his fastball except that time he retained his control. Hard to tell what is going on but he isn't the same pitcher he was i n the first 2/3rds of the season.