On paper, it didn’t look great. Sometimes in person, it also didn’t look great. Dylan Bundy is Anaheim’s best starter, equally deadly on righties and lefties, 95th percentile this season in chase rate and a master at suppressing hard contact. The Mariners lineup, on the other hand, is the hitting equivalent of this dog:
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If you haven’t seen the movie, this is a dog that successfully defeats a group of highly sophisticated robots hellbent on the destruction of the human race because the robots cannot determine if it is a dog, a pig, or a loaf of bread, which causes them to short-circuit.