Madison Bumgarner, after giving up four homers, to have back issue examined
After the Padres had set a team record with six home runs in a home game, they settled in to watch Dinelson Lamet mow down the Arizona Diamondbacks en route to a 9-5 victory at Petco Park.
The Padres tagged former Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner for four of those home runs — two by Manny Machado — in two innings before Bumgarner departed. He said he was pitching despite waking up during the night with discomfort in his back.
“We’re sitting here and it looks like, obviously, I should not have been out there,” Bumgarner told azcentral.com. “At the time, me, I feel like I can find a way and get guys out and keep us in the game. And it just didn’t work out that way.”
Bumgarner, who has allowed seven homers in 17 ⅓ innings in four starts and has a 9.35 ERA, was to return to Phoenix to be examined by team doctors.
Lamet had a no-hitter until Kole Calhoun homered to lead off the seventh and departed after retiring the next two hitters. He struck out 11.
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