{"id":12115,"date":"2018-03-24T02:46:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T06:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/?p=12115"},"modified":"2018-03-24T02:46:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T06:46:31","slug":"bumgarner-samardzija-out-start-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2018\/03\/24\/bumgarner-samardzija-out-start-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumgarner, Samardzija injuries put Giants behind the 8-ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 <a href=\"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/mlb-teams\/san-francisco-giants\/\" target=\"_self\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> want nothing more than to start the upcoming season healthy and put last season&#8217;s performance behind them. Unfortunately for the Giants, their baggage carries over to the 2018 preseason. With hardly a week left of Spring Training, the Giants incurred two injuries within the last two days.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/samarje01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeff Samardzija<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is out for a month with a pectoral strain, and now Giants ace\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bumgama01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Madison Bumgarner<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0will be out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hankschulman\/status\/977321533298257920\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with a fractured pinky<\/a>\u00a0to start the season. Bumargner will require surgery and his timetable to return is undetermined.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Bumgarner fractures pitching hand in final tune-up of the spring <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fpe2S13t0x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/fpe2S13t0x<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sU4ANgWdkM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/sU4ANgWdkM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSGiants\/status\/977324992990928897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Bumgarner, Samardzija injuries put Giants behind the 8-ball<\/h2>\n<p>The 33-year-old Samardzija has had his struggles all spring, as he&#8217;s going on the disabled list with a 10.64 ERA and seven strikeouts in 11 innings.<\/p>\n<p>For Bumgarner, the once indestructible demigod that single-handedly led San Francisco to a 2014 championship has had a crack in his armor as of late. Last season Bumgarner injured his shoulder while riding his bike on an off-day, and now he&#8217;ll return to the disabled list before the regular season starts. Before Bumgarner&#8217;s departure in the third inning of his last Spring Training game, he had a solid preseason record. He&#8217;ll go to the disabled list with a 3.43 ERA and 30 strikeouts in 21 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The new additions of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mccutan01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew McCutchen<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/longoev01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Longoria<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jacksau01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Austin Jackson<\/a><\/strong> will immediately have their moment in the spotlight as the Giants will rely on their new-look offense to make up for the losses of Bumgarner and Samardzija. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cuetojo01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johnny Cueto<\/a><\/strong> will also see some mileage as the third starter in the rotation. Cueto is getting the kinks from the offseason worked out. In just 9.1 innings of work, he&#8217;s recorded a 5.79 ERA but has 10 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>The undermanned Giants will try to get over a sorry 2017 effort without their ace on the mound. As injuries continue to spoil new beginnings for the struggling Giants, the title of one article from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/giants\/shea\/article\/Bummer-for-Bumgarner-Giants-Here-we-go-again-12778115.php\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>\u00a0summed up what all Giants fans are thinking currently in big bold letters: &#8220;Here we go again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"QDUn1UXUS-9pl3LeiNh3LQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/854563086\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'QDUn1UXUS-9pl3LeiNh3LQ',sig:'feZsi_xyNjA7Fcm-EtLROTFJh1gaqTSfe0g0f-UBnFs=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'854563086',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 San Francisco Giants want nothing more than to start the upcoming season healthy and put last season&#8217;s performance behind them. Unfortunately for the Giants, their baggage carries over to the 2018 preseason. With hardly a week left of Spring Training, the Giants incurred two injuries within the last two days.\u00a0Jeff Samardzija\u00a0is out for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2133,"featured_media":12120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1071,35],"tags":[68,2513,118,78,69,91],"class_list":["post-12115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giants","category-mlb","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-injured-list","tag-jeff-samardzija","tag-madison-bumgarner","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"modified_by":"Josh Greenberg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}