When a team plays an extra-inning marathon, they almost always dip into the minors the next day to bolster a taxed bullpen. After enduring 18 innings Tuesday in Seattle, the Baltimore Orioles will make a big splash and call up top pitching prospect Dyland Bundy, tweets Ken Rosenthal.
The promotion would cap a meteoric rise for the 19-year-old Bundy, who pitched at three different minor league levels this season, finishing with a 2-0 record and a 3.24 ERA in three starts at Double-A Bowie. He had been working recently in the Instructional League.
The Orioles withstood the temptation to promote to call up Bundy earlier this season, but, with an AL East title in sight, they justifiably are pushing all their chips into the middle of the table. Baltimore used seven relievers for a combined 12 2/3 scoreless frames in Tuesday's 4-2 win.
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