MLB: Top five bullpen meltdowns of Saturday

Saturday was a day of epic meltdowns for five MLB teams as the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers and the New York Mets bullpens all handed their opponents a victory, and in some cases those losses pushed them out of the top of their division standings.

The five bullpen meltdowns of Saturday were memorable as the Brewers lost by one run to the Cincinnati Reds, allowing the Reds to break an 11-game losing streak. The Mets challenged rival Chase Utley of the Los Angeles Dodgers and lost. The Tigers did what the Tigers bullpen has done a lot of the past few years and didn’t show up when called upon.

The Red Sox bullpen gave up six runs in less than two innings pitched, and the White Sox relief pitching forgot about the most important inning, allowing the Kansas City Royals to have their largest ninth inning comeback in team history, and in the process lost the AL Central top spot.

It wasn’t a pretty day for these five bullpens, as good swings were on target, bad pitches were thrown, maybe not the best managerial decisions were made, but it did make for an interesting day of baseball to say the least.

Here are the epic Saturday bullpen meltdowns of May 28 ranked in order of bad to the very worst, showing us even professionals can not just have bad days at the ball park, but really bad days that if we’re a fan of the following teams, we won’t forget in quite some time.

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