Bumgarner tames Cardinals, Giants take NLCS lead

Final

Playoff Series: Game 1 of 7

Giants 3

Cardinals 0

51°
Overcast

8:07 PM ET, October 11,2014
Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri 

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
SF	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	8	0
STL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1

W: M. Bumgarner (1-0)
L: A. Wainwright (0-1)
S: S. Casilla (1)

 

 

 

 

Associated Press

Cardinals Add Pierzynski To NLCS Roster

ESPN SweetSpot blogger David Schoenfield breaks down the Cardinals' decision to add catcher A.J. Pierzynski to their bench and Michael Wacha to their bullpen for the NLCS.

Tags: MLB, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Madison Bumgarner, Adam Wainwright, Michael Wacha, A.J. Pierzynski

ST. LOUIS -- Madison Bumgarner pitched shutout ball into the eighth inning and the San Francisco Giants combined just enough hitting with a couple of defensive flubs by St. Louis to beat the Cardinals 3-0 Saturday night in the NL Championship Series opener.
Bumgarner set a major league postseason record with 26 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings on the road.The Giants lefty was in complete command while 20-game winner Adam Wainwright failed to last even five innings for the Cardinals.San Francisco has won 12 of its last 13 in the postseason, including three straight to erase a 3-1 deficit in the 2012 NLCS against St. Louis.Jake Peavy gets the Game 2 start for the Giants on Sunday night against Lance Lynn.

Copyright by STATS LLC and The Associated Press

 

 

 

Playoff Series

San Francisco leads 1-0 (as of Sat 10/11)
» Sat 10/11	SF 3, @STL 0	Box Score
Oct 12, 2014	SF (Peavy) @ STL (Lynn)	8:07 PM ET
Oct 14, 2014	STL (Lackey) @ SF	4:07 PM ET
Oct 15, 2014	STL (Miller) @ SF	8:07 PM ET
Oct 16, 2014	STL @ SF	8:07 PM ET
Oct 18, 2014	SF @ STL	4:07 PM ET
Oct 19, 2014	SF @ STL	7:37 PM ET
Series Matchup »

Scoring Summary

			SF	STL
	2nd	T Ishikawa singled to shallow left, P Sandoval scored, H Pence to third, B Belt to second.	1	0
	2nd	G Blanco safe at first on error by third baseman M Carpenter, H Pence scored, B Belt to third, T Ishikawa to second.	2	0
	3rd	B Belt hit sacrifice fly to center, B Posey scored.	3	0
View complete Play-By-Play

Game Information

Stadium	Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO
Attendance	47,201 (107.3% full) - % is based on regular season capacity
Game Time	3:23
Weather	58 degrees, cloudy
Wind	10 mph
Umpires	Home Plate - Phil Cuzzi, First Base - Bill Welke, Second Base - Gerry Davis, Third Base - Mark Carlson

Research Notes

Pablo Sandoval has his 1st 3 hit game this postseason, the 3rd of his career. It's tied for the most such games in Giants postseason history.   [+]

The Giants have now won 7 straight road games in the postseason, tied for the 4th-longest streak in postseason history.   [+]

Adam Wainwright threw an MLB-high 54.3 percent breaking pitches this season. Hunter Pence has hit 36 home runs in at-bats to end in a breaking ball in the upper two thirds of the zone since 2009 third most in baseball. Pence is 2 for 5 with a double in at-bats to end in a breaking pitch this postseason.

In Adam Wainwright's first postseason start, he threw 34 of 40 fastballs in the upper-two-thirds of the zone or above. Giants hitters are hitting .190 this postseason in at-bats to end in a fastball in that zone as opposed to .390 against fastballs down.

The Cardinals are hitting .556 this postseason when they put the first pitch in play. Madison Bumgarner has thrown 67.7 percent of first pitches in the zone this postseason, well higher than his 56.6 percent rate from the regular season.

Matt Carpenter is 0-8, 4 Ks and no hard-hit balls in at-bats to end on a pitch on the outer third or away this postseason. Carpenter is 6-8, 3 2B, 3 HR, 7 RBI this postseason in at-bats to end on a pitch on the inner-two-thirds of the plate or closer. He hit .311 in such at-bats in the regular season, compared to .237 in at-bats to end on pitches away.

Adam Wainwright (STL): 4th time in 11 career postseason starts he's thrown 5 or fewer innings, or 36% of his postseason starts. In 217 career regular season starts, he's gone 5 or fewer in 24 of them - 11%.

Adam Wainwright (STL): including his NLDS Game 1 start against the Dodgers, this is the first time Wainwright has failed to go 5 IP in consecutive starts in his career.

Madison Bumgarner (SF): 4th postseason start of 7+ IP and 0 R allowed, now tied with Christy Mathewson for most such starts in Giants franchise history.   [+]

Pablo Sandoval (SF): 10th career multi-hit game in postseason, 2nd all-time for Giants franchise, behind only Frankie Frisch (15).