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Bumgarner Strikes Out Ten, Suffers First Loss

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11 years ago

May 9, 2015

San Francisco, CA – One inning got away from him. Madison Bumgarner struck out ten a season-high, this season. But did not come away with the win. The Giants fell 6-2 to the Marlins who lead the series 2-1. After a solid performance Bumgarner’s mistakes in the fourth proved costly when Miami scored three runs.

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“That’s way too many pitches for five innings,” said Bumgarner who was up to 99 pitches before his exit. “I’ve got to get my pitches down and find a way to get quicker outs. They might not have been bad pitches, but they were the wrong pitch.”

Bumgarner unraveled when he surrendered a solo home run to Marcell Ozuna to leadoff the inning. He fanned J.T. Realmuto and yielded a RBI double to Jeff Baker scoring in Realmuto. Bumgarner forced Michael Morse to ground out but gave up another RBI double to Adeiny Hechavarria making it a 3-0 game.

“That was a nice win against a great pitcher,” Miami manager Mike Redmond said. “Ozuna got us started there with a big home run.”

Pitching coach, Dave Righetti came out to the mound to chat with his ace. Bumgarner struck out the next two batters to end the frame and settled down to retire the next three batters. But his night ended early. He tossed five innings, gave up five hits, three runs, two walks, one home run struck out ten.

“He did have good stuff, the strikeouts showed that,” said Giants manger Bruce Bochy. He just made three to four mistakes and they didn’t miss them.”

Tonight was his first loss when striking out at least ten batters in a game, he entered tonight’s outing with a 17-0 record in such contests. Bumgarner did find success in striking out power slugger Giancarlo Stanton. He became the first pitcher since Cincinnati Red’s Mike Leake to strike out Stanton three times in a game.

Justin Maxwell got the Giants offense going with a leadoff double in the fifth. Brandon Crawford followed with a RBI single to get the Giants on the board. Maxwell made a diving catch in the first frame preventing what could’ve been a run scored. His athletic defense ended the inning stranding one runner.

The Marlins added on three more runs in the eighth off Jean Machi. He fanned Stanton to leadoff the inning. Ozuna singled and Realmuto’s sacrifice bunt advanced both runners. Donovan Solano cleared the bases with a two-run double and a overturned call brought in the insurance run extending Miami’s lead 6-1.

A call was overturned keeping the Marlins on base when the umpire ruled Hechavarria safe at first instead of the original call that he grounded out to second baseman Panik to first baseman Brandon Belt. Miami challenged the play and after review, the call was overturned. Hechavarria’s infield single drove in D. Solano with the Marlins sixth run.

Notes – Hunter Pence has been anxious to return to the lineup but first he has to complete a few rehab assignment. After being aggressive with his workouts in batting practice, Pence didn’t disappoint in his debut game with the River Cats in Sacramento. He went 0-for-2 but kept it entertaining when the first fly ball was hit toward him in right field.

Pence raced to make a catch with his cap flying off. The next inning he drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. It’s been almost two months since he fractured his left forearm in Spring Training. Pence has a lot of time to make up and that process begins now with several minor league games to be played before returning to the Giants.

“It’s been a long journey, for sure,” said Pence . “Having an injury that not too many people have had, I didn’t realize the amount of work rehab really is, and how long it was going to be, and how painful. It’s just a long process.”

“It was great,” referring to his first game. “I was really amped and I was pretty excited. I hardly slept the night before, just adrenaline. I had to remind myself, ‘Hey, you’ve played this game before. Calm down.’ But I was really pumped.”

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Poll Shows Support for Policies That Help Families Afford Child Care

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — New national polling shows persistent voter concern about the affordability and availability of child care for working parents, alongside broad support across key demographic groups for federal child care policies that help families afford care.

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New national polling shows persistent voter concern about the affordability and availability of child care for working parents, alongside broad support across key demographic groups for federal child care policies that help families afford care.

The national survey was conducted by UpOne Insight on behalf of the First Five Years Fund from January 13–18, 2026.

Key findings include:

• Parents need help: 80% of voters say the ability of working parents to find and afford child care is either in a state of crisis or a major problem.

• This is an affordability issue: 82% believe federal child care funding will help lower costs for working families — including 69% of Republicans, 84% of Independents, and 94% of Democrats.

• And there continues to be strong support (62%) for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), a federal program that makes it possible for hundreds of thousands of families to afford safe, quality care for their children while parents work or go to school, including a majority of Republicans, 63% of Independents and 72% of Democrats.

• Support for funding child care programs remains strong: 75% believe child care funding should be increased or kept at current levels — including 75% of Republicans, 85% of Independents, and 97% of Democrats.

• 74% say funding for child care is an important and good use of tax dollars, including a majority of Republicans, three-quarters of Independents, and nine in ten Democrats.

FFYF Executive Director Sarah Rittling said, “Voters across the country are sending a clear message: federal child care and early learning programs work. These investments help parents stay in the workforce, strengthen families, and support healthy child development. They have also long had strong bipartisan support in Congress. At a time when affordability is top of mind for families, continued federal funding is essential to ensure child care remains accessible and within reach.”

First Five Years Fund works to protect, prioritize, and build bipartisan support for quality child care and early learning programs at the federal level. Reliable, affordable, and high-quality early learning and child care can be transformative, not only enhancing a child’s prospects for a brighter future but also bolstering working parents and fostering economic stability nationwide.

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Trump’s MAGA Allies are Creating Executive Order Plan to Steal the 2026 Midterms

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The document that could lead to an executive order proposes using the claim that China interfered with the 2020 elections as grounds to “declare a national emergency.” The move would be an unprecedented step that would grant Trump new authority over the voting systems in the U.S.

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A group of MAGA pro-Trump activists, who say they are working in coordination with the White House, are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that would claim without evidence that China interfered with the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential to President Joe Biden by over 7 million votes. Since Trump lost to Biden in 2020, he has repeatedly claimed that the election was “stolen” without evidence. The report of a group of “Trump allies” preparing an executive order to give Trump power over elections was first reported by The Washington Post.

The lies around the right-wing campaign that pushed falsehoods that the 2020 election was stolen was trafficked through right-wing media, particularly Fox News. Fox News was then sued for defamation for the claims by Dominion Voting Systems. Fox lost the case and had to settle for the largest defamation amount on record of $787.5 million in April 2023.

The document that could lead to an executive order proposes using the claim that China interfered with the 2020 elections as grounds to “declare a national emergency.” The move would be an unprecedented step that would grant Trump new authority over the voting systems in the U.S.

The story in The Washington Post arrives as Trump increasingly signals that he may take actions that would alter the result of the 2026 midterms. The Republicans are widely expected to lose as their approval ratings plummet as a result of a failing economy under Trump. Over 50 members of Congress have announced they will retire this year and not return in 2027.

The Trump Department of Justice, which now has a large image of Trump on the side of it, “sued five new states Thursday [Feb. 26, 2026] demanding access to their unredacted voter rolls — escalating a campaign that has been rejected by multiple federal courts and faces resistance from Republican-led states as well,” according to Democracy Docket, a group that works to protect voting rights.

Trump claimed back in late 2020, the last year of his first term, that he had the authority to issue an executive order related to mail-in voting for the 2020 elections — which he would then lose. But the Constitution states that control of elections lies with the states. As the GOP works to place hurdles in front of voting, Democrats worked to make voting easier.

In March 2021, President Biden signed an executive order calling on federal agencies to expand voting access as part of the Biden Administration’s effort “to promote and defend the right to vote for all Americans who are legally entitled to participate in elections.”

Trump’s focus is clearly on altering the November 2026 midterm elections. Trump’s polling numbers and the elections and special elections that have taken place around the U.S. over the last year clearly indicate that Republicans are about to be hit by a blue wave of Democratic victories.

Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent investigative journalist and the founder of Black Virginia News. She is a political analyst who appears on #RolandMartinUnfiltered and hosts the show LAUREN LIVE on YouTube @LaurenVictoriaBurke. She can be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke