9 absurd stats showing Madison Bumgarner's postseason dominance

NEW YORK - This Madison Bumgarner fellow seems good.

The Giants' 27-year-old righty continued his absurd run of postseason dominance on Wednesday with a complete-game shutout over the Mets in the wild-card game to propel San Francisco to an NLDS matchup with the Cubs. It marked Bumgarner's first postseason appearance since he threw five shutout innings in relief - on two day's rest - in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series to earn World Series MVP honors and the third championship ring of his young career.

Here are 9 stats that show Bumgarner's off-the-charts postseason success:

1. He has a 0.79 ERA over his last nine postseason outings

Yes, you read that correctly: Dating back to Game 2 of the 2012 World Series, Bumgarner is 5-1 with one save and a 0.79 ERA over 68 2/3 innings across his last nine postseason outings. His worst start in that stretch was an eight-inning, three-run performance against the Cardinals in Game 5 of the 2014 NLCS.

2. He has a 0.670 WHIP in that same span

It's really hard for other teams to score runs when they can't ever get on base.

3. He has thrown 23 shutout innings in winner-take-all games

Wednesday marked the third time Bumgarner has pitched in a winner-take-all game. He has yet to allow a run. He threw a complete-game shutout in the 2014 wild-card game against the Pirates, then that five-inning relief outing in Game 7 in Kansas City that year, and now another complete-game shutout in another wild-card game.

4. No pitcher has made more scoreless postseason starts

It's true: Wednesday marked the sixth scoreless postseason start of Bumgarner's career. None of them has been shorter than seven innings.

5. His postseason ERA is the best of all time

Mariano Rivera is the all-time leader in postseason ERA with an astonishing 0.70 mark, but among starting pitchers who've worked as many games as Bumgarner has, he has been the best. In 2014, Bumgarner put on arguably the greatest run of postseason pitching in baseball history. In 2016 he'll get a chance to cement himself as perhaps the best postseason pitcher of all time.

6. He has a 23-inning scoreless streak

Bumgarner was throwing just as hard in the ninth inning Wednesday as he was in the first, which seems more or less in line with everything we know about the man. He threw 119 pitches in Wednesday's game, the most he has ever thrown in a postseason game and more than he did in any regular-season outing in 2016.