Dylan Bundy had a frustrating meltdown during a rough sixth inning in a game between the Orioles and Dodgers. Baltimore was up by one, and Bundy got into trouble after A.J. Pollock led off with a double. Cody Bellinger then hit what looked like a routine fly ball, but instead of making the easy play, the outfielder tried to deke the runner and made a bad throw home, letting the run score. Bundy wasn’t happy, and his defense didn’t help. He walked Seager next and grew visibly more irritated.
The inning unraveled from there. Despite getting a couple outs on pop-ups, including one where the left fielder took an ugly route but made the catch, Bundy couldn’t escape. A dropped ball kept an inning alive, and Bundy loaded the bases. He appeared to strike out Russell Martin on a check swing for the third out, but the ump didn’t call it. Then Martin swung and missed at strike three, but the catcher couldn’t hold onto it, and the runners all advanced. Bundy just stood there, not covering home, seemingly done with it all.
It was a mess. Baltimore’s outfield looked lost, the ump missed a call, and Bundy forgot to play heads-up baseball. What should’ve been three outs dragged on to feel like five or six. Bundy walked off the mound furious, and no one could blame him. The Orioles defense gave him no support, and the whole sequence was a snapshot of their rough season.