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Everything you needed to know about this game can be explained through Madison Bumgarner hitting for himself in the bottom of the seventh inning, down by one.

Given the relative lack of offense directly after Ethier, I asked Mattingly why he chose, knowing what would happen with Kemp, one shot with the bases loaded for Ethier rather than two shots with two runners on for Kemp and Ethier.

Unlike the Giants' Brett Pill and 111 others, Miguel Cabrera did not homer in his first Major League at-bat. However, he did have a special fifth career at-bat. Cabrera debuted on June 20, 2003, and in his first time at the plate, struck out against the Devil Rays' Rob Bell.