The Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Madison Bumgarner watches the San Francisco Giants Evan Longoria last Saturday round the bases, one of two homers Bumgarner gave up in his first time back since leaving the Giants (AP News photo)

On the MLB podcast with Larry:

We open with a tribute to the passing of Hall of Famers Lou Brock and Tom Seaver

#1 Larry what was it like for Arizona pitcher Madison Bumgarner to come back and pitch against his former team the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night only to give up back to back home runs and lose a close game 4-3.

#2 Bum has been struggling now and is 0-4 has had a bad back. Did the Giants see issues of Bumgarner’s motion or something different in his pitching where they decided to let him go after last season?

#3 Bumgarner pitched in three World Series Championships during five seasons winning them all. There’s very little doubt for Bumgarner coming back to San Francisco had to be something special in spite of his losing Saturday’s game.

#4 In Bumgarner’s return on Saturday he gave up back to back home runs, pitched four innings, gave up two runs, three hits, and struck out two hitters, it’s not quite the line he wanted facing his old teammates.

#5 On other thing people will remember about Bumgarner in San Francisco that he also was a pretty good hitting pitcher. It doesn’t do him very good right now with the universal DH in the National League.

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