Kyle Barraclough caught the new baseball from home plate umpire Bruce Dreckman and angrily threw the old ball that had just been scalded into his team’s first-base dugout.
The Washington Nationals reliever joined a growing list of bullpen meltdowns Wednesday afternoon, as he gave up a bases-loaded double to Philadelphia Phillies leadoff man Andrew McCutchen in the eighth inning.
That gave the Phillies a two-run lead, but the Nationals came back to win, 9-8, with two runs in the eighth and a bases-loaded walk with no outs in the last of the ninth by rookie utility man Jake Noll.