Bochy sticks with Hudson in righty’s first LCS start

In Tuesday’s Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, Tim Hudson — toward the end of his 16th big league season — started for the first time in an LCS. Perhaps that’s why Giants manager Bruce Bochy kept the veteran right-hander in for the beginning of the seventh inning to protect a one-run lead. Perhaps it was a gut feeling, even though Hudson had already thrown 86 pitches.