Twitter After Dark: Madison Bumgarner’s Talent Level In Question Following “Wild” Pitches Against A Certain Team

On Tuesday evening the Arizona Diamondbacks and starting pitcher/rodeo-bull-rider Madison Bumgarner squared off with the visiting Houston Astros, who ended up handily winning 8-2.

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Following the game, the MLB Twitterverse was chirping loudly about the performance of Bumgarner (0-2, 7.04 ERA, 1.37 WHIP), suggesting the 2014 World Series Most Valuable Player may be past his prime to some extent.

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The mass confusion seemed to be running astray, and with some evident absent-mindedness to the situation considering who exactly that Bumgarner’s opponents happened to be.

Anyone paying attention to baseball leading up to this season assuredly would be aware of the fact that whenever it was that the league returned (which it has), pitchers were going to be putting Astros players between their bulls-eyes.

Ol’ Mad Bum tagged two Houston batters: Martin Maldonado, and Abraham Toro (twice).

I think the more stand-out nature of the fact that he nailed the same batter on two separate occasions would be a slight nudge in the direction of intentionality.

But perhaps it takes a real, true fan of the game to understand what’s really going on…

Maybe Bumgarner really has lost his step in trade-off for the bucking bulls off the field. But I doubt that he would pass up an opportunity to zing the convicted cheaters in what’s likely to be his final years of his pitching career.