BALTIMORE — There was a symmetry to them, out beyond the left-center-field wall at Camden Yards before first pitch Wednesday evening, just as there has been since the 2019 trade that simultaneously connected the pitchers before sending them on diverging paths.
The pair of right-handers — the Orioles’ Kyle Bradish and the Minnesota Twins’ Dylan Bundy — each threw their warmup pitches in their respective bullpens, stacked one next to the other. Three years ago, when the trade went down, Bundy was sent to the Los Angeles Angels in exchange for Bradish and three other prospects. And now here they were, the two headliners from that deal meeting in the park one called home for years and the other only recently met.
“I guess we’ll always be linked,” Bradish said earlier this week, before Baltimore’s 9-4 win against the Twins.