Wednesday Night game seven took place in Kanas City, Missouri between the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants. With the World Series on the line, the top teams of their respective conferences battled it out all night. Jeremy Guthrie started for the Royals, while Tim Hudson started for the Giants.

The real story of this game was Madison Bumgarner, who pitched five innings in relief and ended up getting the save for the game. Once Bumgarner forced the final out of the series, many claimed this to be one of the best individual performances ever. Red Sox great Curt Schilling took to twitter and proclaimed, “Best post season performance ever”.

With 34 innings under his belt on the series, Bumgarner gave up just one run, putting his earned run average at an astonishing, inconceivable .26 runs per nine innings pitched. Not only did this win cement Madison Bumgarner’s legacy in the history books, Manager Bruce Bochy now has quite the resume as well. Arguably the most successful manager in recent history, Bochy’s Giants have won nine strait postseason series and have won three of the last five World Series.

With all this talk of the Giants’ accomplishments, it is easy to overlook what the Royals have done this postseason. In their first postseason appearance in almost three decades, it truly is impressive, remarkable really, for them to have made it this far. As great as all that progress must feel for Kansas City, it has to be bittersweet to get that close and not seal the deal. For what has been an exciting postseason as we have seen in recent history, I believe I speak for all when I say that early April cannot come soon enough.