Madison Bumgarner's latest masterpiece not only has the San Francisco Giants on the brink of a World Series triumph, it has the 25-year-old hurler among some of baseball's greats. Bumgarner suffocated Kansas City batters on Sunday, out-doing his performance in a 7-1 game-one victory with a complete-game 5-0 shut-out that gave the Giants a 3-2 lead in Major League Baseball's best-of-seven championship final. His was the first World Series shutout since Josh Beckett's in 2003, and Bumgarner became the first pitcher in World Series history to pitch a shutout with no walks and at least eight strikeouts. "That guy's phenomenal," Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas said.