Royals vs. Giants: Game 5 Score and Twitter Reaction from 2014 World Series

Madison Bumgarner was nearly unhittable Sunday night, leading the San Francisco Giants to a crucial win.

And no, you didn't accidentally stumble across one of several other game recaps from the 2014 MLB playoffs.

The 25-year-old continued one of the most dominant postseason performances we've seen in a long time, giving up just four hits in a complete game shutout to lead the Giants to a 5-0 win and 3-2 World Series lead.

Bumgarner is now 4-1 in the 2014 postseason and 4-0 in his World Series career. ESPN's Buster Olney and FanGraphs' David Cameron provided some of his unbelievable numbers:

The few times Kansas City reached base, Bumgarner responded with emphasis. After a Lorenzo Cain single in the first, he struck out Eric Hosmer. Following a Salvador Perez single in the second, he K'd the side. Omar Infante doubled in the fifth, and a pair of strikeouts followed the hit to end the inning.

Bumgarner faced nine batters with a runner on base. He struck out the first six and retired all of them in order.

As ESPN Stats and Info noted, his curveball was working especially well:

James Shields, who mostly struggled in his first four starts of the postseason, countered Bumgarner with his best outing thus far. He struck out four through 6.0 innings, giving up two runs, eight hits and one walk.

Grantland's Rany Jazayerli argued Shields would have kept pace with the Giants star if Kansas City's typically run-saving defense had a better game:

All the hits Shields allowed were singles, but San Francisco found a way to manufacture a couple of runs.

In the second inning, a ground ball from Brandon Crawford scored Hunter Pence, who had moved around the bases on a bunt single and sacrifice fly. Shields' inability to land the timely strikeout was significant in that particular sequence, as The Kansas City Star's Blair Kerkhoff pointed out:

Crawford added another RBI in the fourth, singling home Pablo Sandoval, who benefited from a misplay by Jarrod Dyson in center field. MLB's Twitter feed provided a glimpse at the unspectacular series of plays:

The Giants added three runs in the eighth on a Juan Perez two-run double and yet another RBI single from Crawford, and they are now one win away from a third World Series title in five years. 

They'll turn to Jake Peavy in Tuesday night's Game 6 to help accomplish that, while Kansas City will hope rookie fireballer Yordano Ventura can help keep its season alive.

Perhaps the best news for the Royals, who return home for Game 6 and a potential Game 7, is they won't have to face Bumgarner anymore.

That is, unless he makes an appearance out of the bullpen in Game 7.