The San Francisco Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates are playing live on the MLB schedule on Monday night and the matchup is from AT&T Park in the Bay Area as these two NL teams try and get into position for the playoffs and the matchup starts at 10:15 pm ET and has Madison Bumgarner and Vance Worley on the mound in the pitching duel for the National League teams.
The Giants are in the wild card race against the Pirates and they are also right in the mix with the Dodgers in the NL West and that is a two team race ahead of the Dbacks and Padres. Bumgarner has been having a fine season and is 12-7 on the year and he has now won three starts and has allowed just one run in the last two games he has pitched and that included a gem against the Phillies last week.
The Giants have lost four in a row after losing to the Dodgers and getting swept in their series over the weekend and now they are trailing in the division again. The team has been slumping hard since their start to the season, as they had a double digit lead in the division before allowing the Dodgers to overtake them. The Pirates are on a long road trip and playing against NL West teams and they have now lost eight of 11 games on the road and they are hanging in both the wild card race and the central division race behind the Cardinals and Brewers. The Giants have 57 wins on the season and they are looking for a bat at the deadline and they also traded for Jake Peavy.
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