Dylan Bundy Had A Bad Day

Dylan Bundy didn't have it yesterday. He really, really didn't have it. Not only did he fail to record an out against the Royals, but he is now the only pitcher to ever allow four home runs and fail to record an out. It would have been tough to almost completely wipe out Bundy's strong start to the season, but he's essentially done just that.

The four-homer thing is obviously horrible and embarrassing, but Bundy isn't alone in having a truly awful start in which he didn't record a single out:

Results

Rk	Player	Date	Tm	Opp	Rslt	App,Dec	IP	ER	HR	Pit	GSc
1	Dylan Bundy	2018-05-08	BAL	KCR	L 7-15	GS-1, L	0.0	7	4	28	10
2	Gil Heredia	1992-06-04	SFG	HOU	L 6-12	GS-1, L	0.0	7	0	25	10
3	Joe Grahe	1991-06-18	CAL	MIL	L 6-10	GS-1, L	0.0	7	1	28	10
4	Matthew Boyd	2015-07-02	TOR	BOS	L 6-12	GS-1, L	0.0	7	2	28	9
5	Jeremy Hefner	2012-09-20	NYM	PHI	L 1-16	GS-1, L	0.0	7	0	30	9
6	Armando Reynoso	2000-04-23	ARI	SFG	L 7-12	GS-1, L	0.0	7	1	26	9
7	Jim Clancy	1989-08-03	HOU	CIN	L 2-18	GS-1, L	0.0	7	1	26	9
8	Paul Wilson	2005-05-06	CIN	LAD	L 6-13	GS-1, L	0.0	8	2	25	7
9	Blake Stein	1998-08-31	OAK	CLE	L 6-15	GS-1, L	0.0	8	0	25	7

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Generated 5/9/2018.

That table, from the indispensable Baseball-Reference Play Index, shows a list of pitchers in MLB's Expansion Era who started a game, didn't record an out, threw fewer than 30 pitches, and had a Game Score of 10 or below. It won't make Bundy feel better, but there are others who had starts they'd desperately like to take back.

This outing was the worst of the season for Bundy (and his career), and it's the third in a row in which he's been terrible. In his last three starts (9 innings pitched combined), he's allowed 22 runs (19 earned) and nine home runs. That's after allowing only 8 runs (5 earned) in his first five starts in 2018.

Bundy is having some serious issues right now. The obvious question is if he's hurt, but both Bundy and Buck Showalter say he's fine. That doesn't mean he is, but it's possible that he's simply going through an extremely rough patch. That has to be the hope, because it doesn't get much worse than what Bundy did yesterday.