masn-baseballs-orioles.jpgAfter a road trip where they went 0-3 at Houston and 3-1 at New York, the Orioles get a brief chance to play a few games at home starting tonight. They’ll host Toronto for a three-game series at Camden Yards before they go back on the road.
The Orioles produced a couple of wild extra-inning wins at Yankee Stadium to take that series after going 2-8 there last season.
Right-hander Dylan Bundy (0-0, 0.69 ERA) makes his third start of the season tonight. Bundy began the year pitching on opening…

After a road trip where they went 0-3 at Houston and 3-1 at New York, the Orioles get a brief chance to play a few games at home starting tonight. They’ll host Toronto for a three-game series at Camden Yards before they go back on the road.

The Orioles produced a couple of wild extra-inning wins at Yankee Stadium to take that series after going 2-8 there last season.

Right-hander Dylan Bundy (0-0, 0.69 ERA) makes his third start of the season tonight. Bundy began the year pitching on opening day and threw seven scoreless innings at the Twins. On Wednesday at Houston, he went six innings, allowing five hits and two runs, with just one earned run. So over two games, he has thrown 13 innings, allowing 10 hits and two runs (one earned) with three walks to 15 strikeouts. He ranks seventh in the American League in ERA.

While lefty batters have hit .304 off Bundy, he is holding right-handed batters to a .125 average, a .125 slugging percentage and a .317 OPS. They are 3-for-24 against him with no extra-base hits.

dylan-bundy-white-side.jpgBundy has used his slider 26 percent of the time and has gotten swings and misses on 33 percent of those pitches. He yields a batting average of just .133 when his slider is put into play.

Bundy has strong numbers against Toronto. In three starts last season, he went 2-0 with an ERA of 0.95. In seven career games (three starts), he is 3-0 with an ERA of 0.76 and WHIP of 0.887. In 23 2/3 innings, he has walked five and fanned 26 Blue Jays.

His mound opponent tonight is lefty J.A. Happ. He is 1-1 with a 5.40 ERA so far, allowing three runs over 4 2/3 innings versus the Yankees and four runs over 5 1/3 innings against the White Sox.

Lefty batters are just 1-for-7 (.143) against him, but right-handed batters are hitting .294 (10-for-32) with an OPS of .940 versus Happ.

In three 2017 starts against Baltimore, he was 0-3 with an ERA of 3.06. In 15 career games (14 starts), he has gone 4-6 with a 3.45 ERA and 1.244 WHIP.

In the 12th inning of Sunday’s game at New York, the Orioles turned a 1-2-5 double play when a bases-loaded grounder to pitcher Brad Brach was thrown to catcher Caleb Joseph, who threw and was to third sacker Tim Beckham. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the 1-2-5 double play was the first of its kind in the majors since Sept. 7, 2012, when the Houston Astros did so against the Cincinnati Reds. Also according to Elias, this marked the first 1-2-5 double play in Orioles history.

Sunday afternoon’s walk-off home run for Norfolk’s DJ Stewart was his first home run at the Triple-A level. It was the first walk-off home run for the Tides since Chris Johnson – manager Ron Johnson’s son – hit an 11th-inning walk-off homer versus Lehigh Valley on Aug. 16, 2017.