Dylan Bundy

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Orioles manager Buck Showalter and his staff spend the spring breaking down the game into increments of 90 feet - the distance between the basepaths. But one ninth-inning mistake in Thursday's Grapefruit League game against the Tampa Bay Rays -- a catcher's interference call on Luis Exposito that allowed the eventual winning run to score -- cost the Orioles a 4-3 decision in front of a record-setting announced 8,797 at Ed Smith Stadium. Rays top prospect Wil Myers laced a leadoff double to left-center off Orioles top prospect Dylan Bundy in the ninth, and he moved to third on a wild pitch by Bundy.

SARASOTA, Fla - If anything, there were only whispers. Nothing damning, nothing loud. No one within the Orioles organization wanted to show real concern, not in March, not with the blessed right arm of their future, 20-year-old Dylan Bundy. But after Bundy's performance Saturday against the Boston Red Sox - one in which the universally regarded top pitching prospect in baseball managed only 18 strikes in 35 pitches and consistently threw his mid-to-high 90s fastball at 91-to-93 mph - there was some quiet consternation.

Chris Tillman was supposed to start this afternoon's game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, but now Miguel Gonzalez will. Tillman apparently first dealt with some abdominal soreness about a week ago, had it treated and believed it had gone away. But he felt it again this weekend and the Orioles decided to take it easy with the 24-year-old right-hander . So he is a scratch and Gonzalez -- who was scheduled to pitch anyway -- will start. I'm sure some of you are concerned that Tillman is dealing with a previously unreported injury that could linger.

This will be one of the more interesting spring training games of the year. The Orioles throw top pitching prospects Dylan Bundy and Kevin Gausman tonight against the Boston Red Sox in Fort Myers, Fla. Unfortunately, it's not a fully representative Boston lineup: No David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia or Jacoby Ellsbury. But it will be interesting to see how Bundy and Gausman do, regardless. Here are the two lineups: Boston: Brock Holt 4, Jonny Gomes 7, Jackie Bradley Jr. 8, Mike Napoli 3, Jarrod Saltalamacchia 2, Will Middlebrooks 5, Mike Carp DH, Mitch Maier 9, Jose Iglesias 6. Felix Doubront gets the starting pitching nod. Terry Doyle, Joel Hanrahan and Andrew Miller also may pitch.

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Orioles manager Buck Showalter joked earlier this week that he wasn't sure which one of his top pitching prospects he wanted to start Saturday night against the Boston Red Sox - for fear the other one would hurt himself trying to outdo his buddy. Ultimately, the decision was made to put 2011 first-round pick Dylan Bundy ahead of 2012 first-round pick Kevin Gausman. Bundy got the start, but Gausman had the smoother and more eye-popping outing as the duo combined to allow just one unearned run through five innings in the Orioles' 5-2 win at JetBlue Park.

For the first time in their young careers, Dylan Bundy and Kevin Gausman - the club's top picks in the 2011 and 2012 drafts - pitched in the same game , a 5-2 Orioles' victory over the Boston Red Sox at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Fla. Bundy, 20, started, went two innings, allowed one hit, two walks, an unearned run and struck out one batter. Gausman, 22, pitched three innings, allowed two hits and struck out three including Jonny Gomes twice. Bundy threw 35 pitches, 18 for strikes, and hit between 91 and 94 with his fastball.

The Orioles have an afternoon game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Sarasota, and those Blue Jays aren't fooling around. They have brought some of their big guns, such as Jose Bautista, Melky Cabrera and Adam Lind. And Mark Buehrle is expected to throw three innings to start. Here's the Jays' order: Emilio Bonifacio 4, Maicer Izturis 6, Melky Cabrera 8, Jose Bautista 9,  Adam Lind DH, Mark DeRosa 5, Lars Anderson 3, Henry Blanco 2, Eugenio Velez 7, Buehrle 1. The home team has a fairly representative lineup as well, though Nick Markakis (neck)

The Orioles, the beasts of the Grapefruit League, are in the process of whittling down a list of more than two dozen pitchers into a pitching staff, and the final couple of spots in the Opening Day rotation are up for grabs. One of those pitchers is Dylan Bundy, one of the consensus top-five prospects in baseball and the latest Paul Bunyan of Baltimore baseball. After the Orioles drafted him with their first-round pick in the 2011 draft, the stocky pitching prodigy who cut down pecan trees before his 10th birthday and whose long-toss regime irked some MLB teams, became a myth of sorts.

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Orioles top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy, who missed his last scheduled spring outing Sunday after tweaking his groin, was slated to resume throwing Tuesday by participating in the team's biomechanical testing. Bundy said he felt the tweak while running sprints on Friday and said he could have pitched Sunday, but the team wanted to push him back as a precaution. “I was kind of being stubborn and I wanted to run more, so it's just little tweak, nothing big,” Bundy said.

Orioles top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy, who was scheduled to pitch in Sunday afternoon's Grapefruit League game against the Phillies, was moved back because of muscle spasms in his groin. Additionally, he is scheduled to participate in the team's biomechanical testing Tuesday. “It was nothing he couldn't pitch with,” Showalter said of the spasm. That means Bundy, the game's No. 2 prospect according to Baseball America, won't pitch until at least Thursday, eight days after his last spring outing Feb. 27 against the Yankees in Tampa.