SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Madison Bumgarner again dominated early, Brandon Crawford hit a run-scoring grounder and the San Francisco Giants led the Kansas City Royals 1-0 after three innings Sunday night as they tried to take a 3-2 World Series lead.
Bumgarner, 3-0 in World Series play, got five of his first nine outs on strikeouts, energizing the sellout crowd at AT&T Park on a cloudless early evening. He allowed one run and three hits over seven innings in the opener, a 7-1 win, and has yielded just two hits in Game 5.
After Salvador Perez’s leadoff single in the second, Bumgarner struck out Mike Moustakas in an eight-pitch at-bat, then fanned Omar Infante and Jarrod Dyson on three pitches each.
Royals manager Ned Yost moved up Perez to the No. 5 spot in the batting order and dropped Moustakas to the No. 6 hole. That broke up lefties Eric Hosmer and Moustakas, who hit back-to-back in Games 3 and 4.
A night after overcoming a three-run deficit in an 11-4 victory that tied the Series, the Giants went ahead in the second against Game 1 loser James Shields, who is eligible for free agency and likely was making his last start for the Royals.