We created a simple new index earlier this week — the Matty Score — to rank baseball’s greatest World Series pitchers. When we did, Madison Bumgarner of the San Francisco Giants ranked as the seventh-best World Series pitcher, based on his four stellar starts over the 2010, 2012 and 2014 Series.

On Wednesday night, Bumgarner threw five innings of shutout relief, on just two days of rest. We’re pretty sure he’s more focused on winning a championship and Most Valuable Player award. But we’d like to congratulate him on moving up four spots on the Matty ranking, to third, behind only the great Sandy Koufax and Christy Mathewson himself, for whom the Matty Score is named.