Giants lefty/volunteer sheriff of October County Madison Bumgarner did it again, in which "it" is taking full ownership of a postseason game. On Wednesday, Mad Bum suffocated the Mets in the NL Wild Card Game in Queens with a complete-game shutout (SF 3, NYM 0). At this point, it's time to take stock of Bumgarner's incredible playoff dossier, which is an absurd exercise to undertake when the subject is 27 years old.

Bullet points, for today's busy sales professional ...

  • Bumgarner has now pitched in 15 postseason games, 13 of which have been starts. Over that span, he's pitched to a 1.94 ERA and 83 strikeouts against 16 unintentional walks.
  • He'll enter the NLDS matchup with the Cubs riding a scoreless postseason innings streak of 23.
  • Bumgarner in road playoff games has an ERA of 0.50. That's an all-time record among pitchers with at least 25 road playoff innings.
  • As it so happens, 0.50 also happens to be Bumgarner's ERA over his last nine postseason games.
  • That was Bumgarner's third career postseason shutout. He previously blanked the Royals in Game 5 of the 2014 World Series and the Pirates in the 2014 NL Wild Card Game. Those three postseason shutouts rank second all-time. Tops on the list? Fellow Giant Christy Mathewson with four (three of which came in the 1905 World Series).
  • As Jayson Stark notes, Bumgarner's now the only pitcher in history to toss two shutouts in postseason elimination games.
  • Katie Sharp tweets that Bumgarner's six scoreless starts of seven or more innings are an all-time playoff record.
  • In his last 34 postseason innings, he's allowed exactly one run.

We could go on, of course, but it's very likely that you get the point by now. Barring the unexpected, Bumgarner will have at least one more postseason start this year -- Game 3 against Jake Arrieta and the Cubs -- so we may be updating this list soon enough. Again, we're talking about a 27-year-old, so it seems likely that future seasons will bring even more opportunities for Bumgarner to wow us.

Given his age, regular season accomplishments, and already legendary playoff standing, we may be talking about a future Hall of Famer. That's a bit premature, sure, but it's not too soon to marvel at one of the great clutch pitchers of any era.