Dodgers keep Giants at bay in 9-8 cliffhanger
LOS ANGELES_There were no verbal grenades lobbed at each other, no brush-back pitches, no postgame admonishments. Mad Max vs. MadBum the Sequel kind of fizzled Thursday night, with Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Max Muncy and San Francisco ace Madison Bumgarner dueling to a relatively inconsequential draw.
The rest of the Dodgers batters were a box-office hit, though, pounding Bumgarner for five runs and eight hits - none by Muncy but two by Chris Taylor - in the fourth inning and then holding on for dear life in a
